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UK employment

  • Tuesday, 17 September, 2024
    UK welfare reform
    UK plans shake-up of welfare system to tackle working-age inactivity

    Minister says system leaves too many Britons ‘on the scrapheap’ ahead of autumn white paper

    A person walks past a Jobcentre Plus
  • Sunday, 15 September, 2024
    Employers could sidestep upgrade of UK workers’ rights, government warned

    Simplifying employment status will be key to success of Labour’s measures, say lawyers and unions

    People protest in London’s Leicester Square with a banner reading ‘No to zero hours’ as part of a campaign for higher wages in 2018
  • Thursday, 12 September, 2024
    Tesco PLC
    Tesco warehouse staff win ‘fire and rehire’ case

    Decision by UK Supreme Court to overturn earlier ruling welcomed by shop workers’ union

    Signage outside a Tesco store in south London
  • Tuesday, 10 September, 2024
    UK wage growth slows in 3 months to July

    Annual earnings growth fell to 5.1% in line with analysts’ expectations

    Commuters walk across London Bridge with the Tower Bridge and the HMS Belfast visible in the background.
  • Wednesday, 4 September, 2024
    InterviewPaul Nowak
    ‘Give people hope’: TUC urges government to invest in growth and services

    Spending announced by Labour should just be the start, says Paul Nowak ahead of union congress

    Paul Nowak
  • Monday, 2 September, 2024
    Working from home
    London slower to return to office than New York and Paris

    Employers in UK capital should subsidise transport to entice staff back, report on global cities suggests

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  • Friday, 30 August, 2024
    UK flexible working plans will boost productivity, says Labour minister

    Proposals to boost employee rights include allowing staff to request shorter weeks but longer days

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  • Wednesday, 28 August, 2024
    Whistleblowing
    City whistleblower sacked after raising China spy concerns wins £560,000

    Former compliance officer was unfairly dismissed after complaining to FCA over visa for alleged Chinese agent

  • Tuesday, 27 August, 2024
    Next store staff win six-year equal pay fight

    Tribunal ruling will be watched by supermarkets facing similar legal challenges

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  • Tuesday, 27 August, 2024
    Banks and accounting firms should brace for cost of AI job losses, unions warn

    UK employee groups step up calls for regulation of new technology in workplace

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  • Monday, 26 August, 2024
    UK business
    UK businesses in the dark over Starmer’s workers’ rights deal

    Ministers do not appear to have decided which measures will come in this year

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  • Wednesday, 21 August, 2024
    Unions push for UK public sector ‘pay restoration’ in challenge to Labour

    TUC delegates to vote on call for above-inflation pay rises at conference next month

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  • Wednesday, 21 August, 2024
    News in-depthUK prisons
    ‘Huge talent pool’: UK aims to ease prison pressure by hiring former convicts

    Bike repair scheme is one of several that aims to help the one in four working-age adults with a criminal record

    Eugene Nzeribe fixs a bike at XO Bikes
  • Tuesday, 20 August, 2024
    The Big Read
    The UK skills crisis holding back growth

    A well-trained workforce is essential to the economy, but a shortage of alternatives to university means Britain’s young people are falling behind

  • Wednesday, 14 August, 2024
    Your QuestionsLucy Warwick-Ching
    Can I pay our nanny through my business?

    She will be taking on occasional admin work for me

  • Tuesday, 13 August, 2024
    UK economy
    UK wage growth hits lowest rate in two years

    Unemployment rate also falls in three months to June

    Commuters cross London Bridge on their way to work in the City of London
  • Monday, 12 August, 2024
    News in-depth
    Is the UK too reliant on overseas hires for tech and engineering jobs?

    Government commissions review of two graduate sectors that appear mired in permanent skills crisis

  • Thursday, 8 August, 2024
    Management
    ‘Ill-ish’ and the new rules of working when sick

    A summer Covid outbreak has left staff wondering if they should skip work, come in, or do something in between

    Illustration of a person in their pyjamas and dressing gown being swirled around while they reach for tissues with one hand and a laptop with the other. A hot water bottle, ice pack, notebook, pen, phone, coffee mug and slippers swirl around them
  • Wednesday, 7 August, 2024
    UK property
    UK property market to feel boost from rate cuts, estate agents say

    Rise in surveyors’ optimism comes as separate poll shows jobs sector has yet to strengthen

    A woman and her dog walks past an estate agents display
  • Wednesday, 7 August, 2024
    UK immigration
    UK signals move to curb overseas hiring for tech and engineering jobs

    Home secretary calls for independent migration advisers to review system that ‘needs to be managed’

    Engineer and apprentice
  • Monday, 29 July, 2024
    Inside BusinessAnjli Raval
    Bosses regain the upper hand in hiring

    Balance of power in job markets is shifting back to employers

    People line up as they wait for the JobNewsUSA.com South Florida Job Fair to open
  • Friday, 26 July, 2024
    Camilla Cavendish
    The welfare state is writing too many people off too early

    Sorting out worklessness is a challenge for Labour as a study in Barnsley says most of the economically inactive do want jobs

    Jonathan McHugh illustration of a pair of Dr Martin’s black booths with pink wings in the clouds, tied to each other with their laces.
  • Monday, 22 July, 2024
    Starmer pledges to ‘fire up’ the training of UK workers to boost growth

    Prime minister insists government will resist ‘easy lever’ of foreign labour

    Keir Starmer delivers a speech at Farnborough International Airshow
  • Sunday, 21 July, 2024
    UK public services
    Reeves hints at imminent above-inflation pay deals for teachers and nurses

    UK chancellor says ‘there is a cost to not settling’ even as Treasury grapples with straitened finances

    Rachel Reeves
  • Friday, 19 July, 2024
    Overhaul of workers’ rights raises alarm among employers

    Businesses say Labour’s proposals to give protection against unfair dismissal from day one lack clarity

    An Amazon delivery worker pulls a delivery cart full of packages
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