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Government plans £500 million a year for vocational training

This week's Budget will include radical reforms to the ways vocational and technical training are delivered

UK workers living 'hand to mouth'

One in five (22%) adults believe they'd fall behind on key bills within a month if they lost their main income source

London could suffer skills shortage if EU migrants forced to leave

London relies on migrant labour for many essential services; 13% of the capital's workforce were born in the EU

Bosses 'waste three days per year' in meetings

The average director or manager spends around two-and-a-half hours in meetings each week

Low-paid parents earn £1.96 an hour after childcare costs

Low-paid full-time workers can spend up to 45% of their disposable income on childcare

Wellbeing programmes not aligned with employee needs

Connecting benefits programmes with wider strategies around wellness can be key to promoting engagement

Wellbeing strategies on the rise

45% of UK companies currently have a wellbeing strategy in place, compared with less than a third in 2016

HR and business leaders not ready to manage robots

Deloitte's latest Human Capital Trends report finds many leaders are unprepared to deal with the future of work

British workers unaware of state pension age increases

Large groups of varying ages didn't know about the rises to state pension age between 2018 and 2028

Firms should publish ethnicity data

A government-backed report recommends legislation requiring listed companies and those with 50-plus employees to publish a race breakdown

Acas releases gig economy guidance

It comes as legal cases over the status of workers in the gig economy continue to make headlines

Apprenticeships failing young women

Many women face challenges that make apprenticeships a less attractive option than further education