Rising employment of older workers not linked to youth unemployment, says TUC

The past 20 years have seen a significant increase in the proportion of over-50s and people over retirement age in employment, the TUC reported yesterday.

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Employers pay out £4.4 billion in redundancy payments in the last year

UK employers are estimated to have paid out £4.4 billion in redundancy payments over the last year, according to law firm Wedlake Bell.

Number of unemployed households almost doubles since 1997, according to ONS

The number of households in which no one had ever worked almost doubled from 184,000 in the second quarter of 1997 to 352,000 in the second quarter of 2010, according to figures highlighted in the...

BCC downgrades expectations of growth - predicting 150,000 job losses over 15 months

In its latest Quarterly Economic Forecast, published yesterday, the British Chambers of Commerce (BCC) has downgraded its growth expectations for 2011 and 2012 and is expecting an increase in...

Employers get their act together ahead of Agency Workers Regulations

Employer awareness to act on the Agency Workers Regulation is increasing, according to the Recruitment and Employment Confederation (REC).

The Big Issue takes on the jobless as vendors

The Big Issue – the magazine, which has been bought and sold for personal profit by homeless people for 20 years – is now to be sold by jobless people as well, to give them an income and sense of...

Increase in private sector recruitment has been offset by public sector job losses

The impact on the labour market of a slight rise in private sector recruitment is still being cancelled out by large-scale public sector job losses, according to this quarter’s Labour Market Outlook...

Easing the decisions about employee cuts

With this year’s financial budgets now confirmed for local councils, HR professionals face the unenviable and difficult task of making employee cuts.

Nurses vote to remove health secretary over fears of redundancy

Nurses have passed a vote of no confidence in the health secretary Andrew Lansley over HNS reform - and are refusing to rule out industrial action.

Redundancies loom as 148,000 businesses face significant financial problems

Redundancies loom as research shows almost 148,000 UK companies are facing ‘significant’ or ‘critical’ financial problems, whilst those with ‘critical’ problems alone are struggling with nearly £53...

CIPD calls on Government to release audit of public sector job cuts

The CIPD has called on the Coalition Government to compile and publish a comprehensive administrative audit of public sector job cuts between now and 2014-15 to supplement the modelled forecasts from...

There is good and bad in the public sector. Both are also found in the private...

The public sector is clinging onto its best people with its fingertips. So says Graham White, who is HR director at Westminster City Council - and he is not the only one. Unprecedented cuts are...