Skills shortages

Bias in STEM recruitment processes is preventing talented professionals from returning following a career break, research has found.

The number of flights in August at the airport south of London will be reduced to 825 from the current 850. In recent years there were over 900 flights per day.

The number of job adverts was six percentage points more than in the first week of June.

The construction industry is facing a shortage of a quarter of a million workers within the next four years because of Brexit and the effects of the Covid pandemic.

The rate of hiring new employees was its slowest since March 2021 in May as businesses struggled to find candidates.

A new jobs website has promised to provide only ethical work and aims to get more people employed by sustainable industries.

In his latest episode of the Oven-Ready HR podcast, Chris Taylor speaks to Labour MP Justin Madders.

A report shows progress on acheiving more female leaders in the UK energy sector remains slow, with all-male boards remaining.

A report from the transport committee suggests a “supply chain levy” would assist in building facilities and training new drivers.

Delays in getting security clearance for staff are behind huge staff shortages at UK airports, according to trade body the...

Employers have called for a broadening of what apprenticeship levy funds can be used for. How would this work?

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.