More than half of larger business want to take on more staff by 2015, but are frustrated by a lack of skilled labour in the UK and burdensome employment regulation, according to a survey of 1,200...
There were 2.64 million unemployed people in the third quarter of 2011, up 128,000 on the previous three months quarter, findings from the Office of National Statistics revealed this morning.
Mary Portas published her review and her vision to breathe economic and community life back into high street retail.
Workers in Western European countries, on average, have access to the greatest amount of statutory paid holiday in the world.
The failure of RBS amid the systemic crisis resulted from poor decisions made by the management and Board as well as a “culture that made it prone to make poor decisions”, according to a Financial...
Contributions to UK defined contribution (DC) pension schemes have stagnated as employers face tough market conditions and the challenge of introducing auto-enrolment, according to a Mercer survey.
The current system of paying bereavement benefits is “inconsistent and complex”, with no encouragement to return to work the Minister for Welfare Reform, Lord Freud said yesterday as he published a...
Fashion houses have become the latest targets of an HM Revenue & Customs campaign aimed at ending the “exploitation” of interns.
Proposed EU pension regulations would “add significantly” to business costs at a time when pension deficits are already holding back company performance, a poll of business leaders from the CBI and...
What could silver screen siren Celia Johnson, troubled comedian Michael Barrymore and staid old photocopiers have in common?
The Office of Fair Trading (OFT) has proposed to refer the market for privately funded healthcare services in the UK (PH) to the Competition Commission (CC) for a market investigation.
The Supreme Court has handed down a decision in a case which has a significant impact on the holiday entitlement of workers who do not follow a standard ‘nine to five’ working pattern for five days...
