Youth unemployment remains high in certain regions and sectors across the UK

With a two-year wait for the Office for National Statistics' (ONS) improved employment survey, Claire Muir asks how HR and leadership teams can source reliable workforce data in the interim.

The UK economy lost 190 million working days to absence last year, with each employee taking an average of 6.5 days off sick, according to the latest CBI/Pfizer Absence and Workplace Health Survey.

Changes to capital gains tax, National Insurance contributions and tax on bankers' bonuses are set to be at the top of the chancellor's agenda for the Emergency Budget on 22 June, according to tax...