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UK employment

  • Tuesday, 1 July, 2025
    UK immigration
    UK visa revamp allows lower-skilled office workers to come to Britain

    Rules aimed at tightening regime will at first make provision for temporary shortages in non-graduate occupations

    Commuters walk through Canary Wharf in London
  • Monday, 30 June, 2025
    Nissan Motor Co Ltd
    Nissan seeks payment delays for suppliers as it plans to cut 250 jobs at Sunderland

    Japanese carmaker’s efforts to shore up cash position come amid sweeping turnaround plan

    A worker inspects a Nissan Qashqai on the production line at the company’s factory in Sunderland, UK
  • Friday, 27 June, 2025
    UK politics
    ‘Fire and rehire’ employment reforms need rethink says UK union leader

    Prospect’s Mike Clancy warns that parts of planned workers’ rights bill could create ‘veto on all contractual change’

    Mike Clancy
  • Friday, 27 June, 2025
    Chris Giles
    Should we stop the UK’s best talent moving to London?

    The capital has been skewing Britain’s economic geography for more than a century

    People on a train station platform in London
  • Thursday, 26 June, 2025
    UK economy
    Labour’s national insurance rise is contributing to job market slowdown, BoE governor says

    Andrew Bailey highlights lower labour demand and predicts ‘significant decline’ in wage growth

    Andrew Bailey stands at a podium
  • Thursday, 26 June, 2025
    UK politics
    UK worker rights overhaul among bills delayed until at least autumn

    Key legislation has been snarled up in parliamentary process

    The Houses of Parliament in London
  • Tuesday, 24 June, 2025
    UK graduate job openings at lowest level since 2018

    New data shows employers holding off hiring and seeking to cut costs by using AI

    A photo of three university graduates wearing gowns and mortar boards
  • Sunday, 22 June, 2025
    UK welfare reform
    UK promise of £1bn boost to job support for disabled not yet funded

    Ministers argue unpopular cuts to welfare payments are part of mission to get people into work and off benefits

  • Wednesday, 11 June, 2025
    UK lacks skilled workers for new defence and nuclear projects, says union leader

    Mike Clancy argues ‘managed immigration’ is needed in some specialist industries

    Mike Clancy
  • Tuesday, 10 June, 2025
    UK unemployment hits 4-year high as pay growth cools

    Vacancies fall and number of people claiming jobless benefits rises

    The Bank of England building in London
  • Friday, 6 June, 2025
    Brexit
    Flicker of hope for young Brits wanting to work in EU

    UK government is working on deal with EU enabling young people to live and work freely in mainland Europe again

  • Thursday, 5 June, 2025
    UK social care
    Care contracts in England are ‘state-sponsored exploitation’, says industry body

    Homecare Association says more than a quarter of local authority fees do not cover cost of employing staff on minimum wage

    An elderly person is helped to walk by a carer
  • Friday, 30 May, 2025
    Personal Finance
    Reader callout: would younger UK employees benefit by working on continent?
    Two young women walk along a city street
  • Friday, 30 May, 2025
    News in-depthUK immigration
    ‘I’ve been tricked’: highly paid foreign workers reconsider ties to UK after rule change

    White-collar professionals fear being ‘kept in limbo’ after ministers extend waiting time for indefinite leave to remain

    Alexander Chreky
  • Monday, 26 May, 2025
    Sick need support to stay in work, says former John Lewis chair

    Charlie Mayfield speaks out as ministers face pressure over planned cuts to disability benefits

    Charlie Mayfield, former chair of John Lewis
  • Tuesday, 20 May, 2025
    UK youth risk jobs ‘scrap heap’ without urgent action, minister says

    New research shows people from disadvantaged backgrounds 66% more likely not to be in work, education or training

    Alison McGovern
  • Friday, 16 May, 2025
    News in-depthUK immigration
    ‘It will be horrendous’: care crisis warning as UK ends overseas recruitment

    Providers say ministers have ‘not been upfront’ about the barriers facing the sector

    Stella Shaw
  • Tuesday, 13 May, 2025
    UK wage growth eases as jobs market weakens

    Economists say Bank of England will stick with a cautious approach to rate cuts

    The Bank of England building in London
  • Tuesday, 13 May, 2025
    Sarah O'Connor
    The minimum wage is now coming for white-collar work

    It’s not destroying jobs but it is catching up with the lower rungs of graduate roles

    Two people walk through an outdoor seating area with green and black chairs in the City of London, surrounded by tall office building
  • Monday, 12 May, 2025
    UK immigration
    Starmer faces business backlash over UK migration curbs

    Tough proposals including ending automatic settlement after five years would end ‘squalid chapter’ for country, PM says

    Keir Starmer, UK prime minister
  • Monday, 12 May, 2025
    UK immigration
    Starmer seeks to cut UK migration and refocus it on graduate work

    PM’s plan reverses post-Brexit liberalisation that allowed foreigners to fill positions in industries such as adult care

    Montage shows the Home Office logo against pictures of a care worker and a student
  • Monday, 12 May, 2025
    UK immigration
    UK immigration plan: the key points

    A summary of the measures the government is taking in its quest to cut net migration

    Keir Starmer
  • Monday, 12 May, 2025
    Is the UK failing its graduates?

    Young people are bearing the brunt of a long-term slowdown in the labour market, data shows

    Image shows the rear view of a person in a graduation gown set on a backdrop of an employment graphic
  • Sunday, 11 May, 2025
    UK jobs slowdown hits education and healthcare as spending cuts bite

    Tight public sector budgets are a growing issue for labour market, surveys find

    Graduates in gowns line up for a photograph
  • Sunday, 11 May, 2025
    UK immigration
    Migrants will have to spend decade in UK before applying to stay

    Government to also end visas for care workers as part of immigration clampdown

    A UK border sign at Heathrow airport
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