Labour market

Candidates availability in May 2025 rose at its fastest pace since 2020, amid reports of redundancies and fewer job opportunities.

UK job vacancies fall by 150,000 or 16.9% in the three months to the end of May 2025 compared to a year ago and are now 7.4% below pre-pandemic levels.

UK employers’ hiring confidence for the third quarter of this year has dropped 12%, the steepest quarterly fall in recent...

Each business body has struck a very different tone with the IoD highlighting a ‘recovery in business confidence’, while the CBI found ‘little sign of summer cheer.’

Trade disruptions lead ILO to revise down global employment growth forecast for 2025, projecting 7 million fewer jobs.

A sustained bounce-back in hiring this year remains possible but employers still have significant concerns about the strength of the economy.

The UK jobs market grew on an annual basis for a second consecutive month as more companies advertised seasonal roles.

The figures reveal a decrease of 26,000 young men but an increase among young women of 19,000.

Less than half of UK workers would comply with a full-time return to office mandate, according to researchers at King’s...

Pay awards in real terms could decrease for a “prolonged period” after inflation overtook salary increases for the first time in 19 months.

UK-EU Summit leads to agreement to work towards a time-limited, capped, youth experience scheme and an association with Erasmus+.

Last week, the government launched its Immigration White Paper. Ross Kennedy examines which jobs are likely to be affected and how employers should react.

Falling public sector productivity could drive up labour costs by more than £5 billion by the end of this decade, a forecast suggests.

Burberry announced the proposed cuts as it reported its financial results today, recording a £66 million loss in the past financial year.

UK labour market figures from Office for National Statistics show decline in regular earnings alongside rise in unemployment.