A Women’s Business Council report released last month stated that increasing the number of women in the workforce would dramatically boost the UK’s economic growth. It added that if women were...

From the end of November 2008, UK employers will need to be licensed by the UK Border Agency in order to employ migrant employees any workers who come outside the European Economic Area and...

It’s sometimes said that being a single mother may be twice the work and twice the stress, but it’s also twice the love. The economic and somewhat less saccharine version of that might be that it is...

Productivity is a word that is being thrown about an awful lot lately. But despite the definition of the term being quite straightforward (“an economic measure of output per unit of input”), pinning...

The European Commission (EC) is “very committed to speed up progress” on gender diversity in the boardroom, according to European Parliament vice chair of the Committee on Economic and Monetary...

According to a report out this week from the think tank there will be a 'major shift' in the length of the formal working week as a consequence of dealing with key economic, social and environmental...

While rising unemployment has been an expected feature of the economic downturn, the biggest story has been around the shift to part-time working. Not real jobs, it is said, but part-time jobs that...