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UK employers are becoming more flexible in their approach to hiring people who don’t speak English in a bid to combat labour shortages.

Care England urges the government to take urgent action after its latest report shows vacancies in the adult social care sector remain high.

Nearly half (49%) of employers have struggled with recruitment in the past year, with nearly three in five (57%) blaming salary expectations.

UK lags behind Spain, France, Germany, Iceland, Japan and Norway when it comes to work-life balance.

Median pay rises in the UK remain at 4% for the three months ending in August, according to new figures from Incomes Data Research (IDR).

National Education Union (NEU) members overwhelmingly vote to accept the government's 5.5% wage increase offer for teachers in England.

Council workers in Scotland to be balloted on industrial action after pay offer rejected by Unison was imposed.

Thousands of NHS staff in Scotland have voted to accept the Scottish government’s pay offer, ending a consultation process.

New data from LinkedIn highlights a general decline in the number of UK organisations hiring for fully remote positions.

The government is not enforcing rules that require civil servants to spend three days a week in the office, reports suggest.

The UK’s labour force is diminishing at its fastest rate since the late 1980s, the Commission on the Future of Employment Support reveals.

Economic inactivity due to sickness could soar to 4.3 million in the UK by the end of this parliament, a cross-party Commission warns.

The Belfast company that built the Titanic has announced it is insolvent, putting between 50 and 60 jobs at risk.

Employers believe the UK will become less attractive to investors if new employment policies are introduced in their current form.

The moves are meant to ‘reduce costs in Germany to a competitive level’ as the market for electric vehicles evolves.