Robert Walters slashes more than 700 jobs in the past year and 159 in the last three months due to falling job vacancies.
Global HR
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Nearly three in five (57%) of young employees believe it is important for businesses to have set race and gender targets, a new study reveals
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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.
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Care England urges the government to take urgent action after its latest report shows vacancies in the adult social care sector remain high.
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Nearly half (49%) of employers have struggled with recruitment in the past year, with nearly three in five (57%) blaming salary expectations.
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News that a branch of McDonald’s and a UK supermarket bread supplier unwittingly employed victims of slavery should serve as a warning to anyone recruiting from overseas.
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UK lags behind Spain, France, Germany, Iceland, Japan and Norway when it comes to work-life balance.
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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).
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National Education Union (NEU) members overwhelmingly vote to accept the government's 5.5% wage increase offer for teachers in England.
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Council workers in Scotland to be balloted on industrial action after pay offer rejected by Unison was imposed.
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Thousands of NHS staff in Scotland have voted to accept the Scottish government’s pay offer, ending a consultation process.
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New data from LinkedIn highlights a general decline in the number of UK organisations hiring for fully remote positions.
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The government is not enforcing rules that require civil servants to spend three days a week in the office, reports suggest.
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The UK’s labour force is diminishing at its fastest rate since the late 1980s, the Commission on the Future of Employment Support reveals.
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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.