Skills shortages

MPs will examine the challenges faced by workers and employers and what the government and businesses can do support the labour market.

In the past year alone, £97m of funding wasn’t spent, which would have paid for 120,000 adults to access courses helping them to reskill.

Research suggests the so-called 'great resignation' is showing no signs of abating.

The first year of the UK's new post-Brexit immigration system has seen a large increase in the number of visas issued to non-EU migrants.

Lower adoption of artificial intelligence in the UK has been blamed on AI skills shortages.

Businesses are starting to see the Home Office ramp-up compliance activity around sponsor licences. How should they respond, asks our expert

Processing times at the Home Office for those wishing to join family working in the UK have doubled, leaving those with job offers in the UK having to renegotiate starting dates.

The Green Jobs Delivery Group, with business, industry, union and academia involvement, has been tasked with supporting the delivery of up to 480,000 skilled green jobs by 2030.

EasyJet plans to remove a row of seats from its planes in a bid to cope with labour shortages.
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The number of active job advertisements across the UK has risen steadily since late March 2022 but the lower level of new job ads suggests gathering fears over the economy.

British Airways will award new cabin crew a £1,000 bonus in an attempt to attract staff as the aviation sector struggles to recruit.

Almost a million graduate-level jobs remained unfilled at the end of 2020, according to a report by education body Universities UK.

The Future Skills Unit, announced in February’s levelling up white paper is set to be launched this month.

MPs have warned that cancer workforce staff shortages could lead to poorer cancer survival rates unless the government comes up with a specific plan.

EasyJet and British Airways have been forced to cancel flights due to staff shortages, just as passenger numbers rise for the school holidays.