Coronavirus

Consulting and accountancy firm EY will shut its UK offices on 3 July to help ensure staff use up their...

Two-thirds (65%) of employees are anxious about returning to the office as lockdown measures are gradually relaxed, a poll has...

The UK could be heading into an ‘employment crisis’, commentators have warned, as the number of employees on payrolls dropped...

More than two-thirds of organisations have introduced new wellbeing benefits to support employees during the coronavirus pandemic, a poll by...

Late last week the government published the first full guidance on the new flexible furlough scheme coming into force on 1 July. What are the key details?

Employers that think they have abused the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme will have a 30-day window in which to admit their mistakes.

From 1 July employees will no longer have to be furloughed for a minimum period of three weeks: new guidance from HM Revenue and Customs.

Drawing narrow comparisons between ‘good’ and ‘bad’ types of work does nothing to help precarious workers, according to a panel...

More than a million people fell through the cracks of the government’s coronavirus support schemes for employees and the self-employed....

About 2,500 jobs to go at leading builders' merchant as low demand forecasts bite.

We want to give key workers a pay rise, while an unprecedented quarter of the UK workforce has had the...

Retail, wholesale, accommodation and food services businesses have been the biggest users of the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme, together putting...

Women aged 25 and under faced the greatest risk of long term unemployment because of the Covid-19 crisis, claims TUC study.

The High Court today hears a case brought by drivers and the IWGB over Treasury's failure to protect precarious workers during the Covid-19 crisis.

Centrica, which owns British Gas, plans to cut management layers and make itself more agile and customer-focused, but union says it will fight to save jobs.