Recruitment & retention

The Home Office wants to ensure employers use the existing pool of workers resident in UK before issuing new sponsor licences.

Mid-sized UK businesses are slow to boost ethnic diversity on their boards, a new race representation report finds

Female chief executives face double standards over how their performance is judged to a far greater extent than men, according to new research.

Migrant workers in the care sectors are being exploited by employers demanding money if they try to leave, according to the Royal College of Nursing.

Ethnic minority graduates from lower socio-economic backgrounds are 45% less likely to be offered an entry-level professional role than more advantaged white applicants.

Law school was asked: ‘First, have you eliminated all DEI from your school and its curriculum? Second, if DEI is found in your courses or teaching in any way, will you move swiftly to remove it?’

Research documents good practice including how to manage performance in neurodiverse teams and the benefit of small changes.

GMC announces that female doctors are greater in number than their male counterparts for the first time ever in the UK.

The government has responded to a consultation on including agency workers in a ban on 'exploitative' zero-hours contracts.

Staff retention schemes have cut the number of health workers leaving the NHS to one of the lowest levels in more than a decade.

As many as 10,000 university jobs could go as higher education in the UK faces an “unprecedented crisis”, a union warns.

Most frequently asked questions during February include queries about Ramadan and dismissals on the grounds of ill health.

There was a further steep fall in UK work visas granted in 2024 as arrivals continue to decrease in the wake of rules introduced at the end of 2023 by the previous government. 

Female representation on FTSE 100 boards increases to 43.4% – equating to 1,275 roles – as British businesses drive gender equality. 

International students who do not secure graduate jobs within two years of finishing university could face deportation.