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Single parents are largest underutilised talent pool in UK

Date:: 30 November 2018

Single parents are the most underutilised major pool of talent in the UK, with almost 200,000 unemployed, according to a new labour market analysis.

Recruiters sound alarm over falling EU migration figures

Date:: 29 November 2018

Significant changes in migration patterns were revealed today in the latest Office for National Statistics figures, causing serious concerns for recruiters in the public and private sectors.

Half of employers don't know unpaid internships are illegal

Date:: 23 November 2018

As many as half of employers are not aware that most unpaid internships are likely to be illegal, research has revealed, as MPs prepare to debate a ban on unpaid placements over four weeks in length.

Business leaders targeted in teacher recruitment drive

Date:: 22 November 2018

The government is to help fund a series of programmes aimed at getting career-changers to become teachers, in a bid to get more experienced business leaders into the profession.

Portrayal of PTSD may damage veterans' job prospects

Date:: 12 November 2018

A government minister has blamed film and TV producers for promoting images of former armed forces personnel that may encourage recruiters to reject their applications for jobs.

No additional right-to-work checks for EU citizens needed, minister confirms

Date:: 7 November 2018

Employers will not need to make additional right-to-work checks on EU citizens in the event of a no deal Brexit, the immigration minister has confirmed, just days after stating the opposite.

'Impossible' to determine EU nationals' right to work during Brexit transition period

Date:: 1 November 2018

Employers will be expected to check EU nationals' right to work in the UK post-Brexit, the immigration minister has told MPs, though there will be a period where it will be "impossible" for employers to differentiate between somebody who has applied for settled status and somebody who has recently arrived in the UK.

Two in five hired into jobs not suited to their personality

Date:: 29 October 2018

The clocks go back an hour at 2:00am on Sunday 28 October 2018. But what does this mean for staff working a night shift? Must they be paid for working an extra hour? Or can they go home when they've worked their usual number of hours, even when the clock says they have an hour to go?

Farmers should not get 'privileged' access to workers after Brexit

Date:: 18 October 2018

The chair of the Migration Advisory Committee has said that UK farmers should no longer get "privileged" access to low-skilled and low-paid workers from the EU after Brexit.

EU searches for construction and health jobs fall as Brexit fears grow

Date:: 12 October 2018

The construction industry is the sector of the economy hardest hit by a decline of interest among jobseekers from EU countries in working in the UK.

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