The number of migrant workers applying for employment in the UK has fallen by 6% since last year due to the recession.

Men and women agree that working for an attractive boss would affect their work - lowering productivity, new research reveals.

The number of households in the UK where no one over 16 has a job has increased by 240,000 over the past year.

Almost eight out of 10 employees (78%) think their lunch breaks are the shortest they have ever been - with three quarters being forced to take coffee breaks during the day instead.

British workers are giving UK business 1.5 billion every week in unpaid man-hours.

Staff absence could cost UK business 5 billion today and on Monday as workers call in 'sick' because of the Ashes final, Andrew 'Freddie' Flintoff's last Test Series, school holidays and paranoia over...

Unemployment is increasing in seaside resorts despite the rise in holidaymakers taking a 'staycation'.

More than 80% of public-sector employers believe shortages in their organisation would be best filled with private-sector staff.

A stronger than expected rise in July retail sales suggests the recession could be ending.

More than a fifth of employers (21%) think they will have to close or part close their premises because of the swine flu pandemic.

Pay freezes look set to spread further into the public sector because of rising unemployment and retail price deflation, according to the CIPD and KPMG.

Seven out of 10 HR directors think the global economy will get worse over the next six months but 56% predict improvements over the next year.