UK Job Market Articles

Employment Statistics
Monthly UK employment and unemployment statistics.

Industrial Scotland overtakes London as worst region in the UK for unemployment
May 16 2011 - A TUC analysis of the 206 local authority areas by claimant to vacancies ratio from March 2005 to March 2011 shows that West Dunbartonshire and East Ayrshire have passed the inner London boroughs to become the UK's worst employment blackspots.

Youth Unemployment Overstated
March 16 2011 - The notion of a 'lost generation' of young jobless people is simplistic, according to the latest Work Audit report on official labour market statistics "Getting the measure of youth unemployment" from the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD).

Limits on Non-EU Migrant Workers Entering the UK
As a first step towards a reduction in non-EU migration, the independent Migration Advisory Committee (MAC) has published the required limits on skilled and highly skilled migrant workers to be admitted to the United Kingdom under Tiers 1 and 2 of the Points Based System in 2011/12.

Working Mums Rely On Grandparents For Childcare
September 7 2010 - Nearly half of working parents (44 per cent) in the UK are reliant upon their own parents to help with childcare.

Gloomy Prognosis For Employment
June 10 2010 - CIPD forecasts unemployment will peak at close to 3 million by 2012 as a result of the coalition government's deficit reduction measures.

Small Businesses Create Most Jobs
May 19 2010 - Recent research from the Globalisation and Economic Policy Centre (GEP) at the University of Nottingham found that small businesses employing less than 100 workers account for 65 per cent of new British jobs created in an average year.

Ambition in IT? New NI Career Information System
February 5 2010 - With ICT being one of the most successful business sectors in Northern Ireland, new sources of information will help people with computing ambitions find out more about career paths.

Recruitment difficulties to continue
May 28 2008 - British businesses still find it difficult to fill job vacancies despite the slowdown in economic growth. According to the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development's (CIPD) annual Recruitment, Retention and Turnover Survey no fewer than 86% of organizations are experiencing recruitment difficulties with the majority placing the blame on a national skills deficit.

After Office
December 18 2007 - What Happens To Unemployed Politicians?

Temping Creating A Skill Gap According To TUC
November 21 2007 - The TUC contends that agency temps who are on long-term working assignments are running the risk of being excluded from permanent jobs because of a skills divide in the workplace.

The Knowledge Economy
September 25 2007 - London and the south east have the most high-skill, high-pay, high-productivity jobs.

More UK Jobs Created Than Destroyed
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February 25 2007 - New research from the Globalisation and Economic Policy Centre at The University of Nottingham has found that 1 in 7 private sector jobs are lost in the UK each year but more are created than destroyed.

TUC goes to Poland
October 18 2006 - A TUC delegation is heading for Poland to advise prospective migrant workers on British employment law and union membership before they set off for the UK.

Costs of staff turnover
Updated August 14 2006 - This year's annual survey of recruitment, retention and turnover conducted by the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development finds that turnover increased from 16 to 18 per cent in 2005.

Jobsworth
A Job Centre in Bolton demanded that "friendly" be removed from a job ad on the basis that it discriminates against the unfriendly - "enthusiastic" and "motivated" have also been victims of similar bans.

Oxfam seeking talent for top overseas jobs June 12 2004 - Oxfam's International Division has launched a specialist international recruitment campaign to attract management high-fliers from both corporate and public sectors.

Working After State Pension Age
June 27 2003 - A report published earlier this year by the Department for Work and Pensions provides information on the labour market participation of older people at, and after, the State Pension Age (SPA).

Still tied to Mum's apron strings
March 23 2001 - Research by the Future Foundation - The Renaissance of Regional Nations - shows that almost two-thirds of adult Britons live within an hour's journey of their mother with almost a third living less than 15 minutes away!

Out of work couples targeted in jobs drive
March 19 2001 - The Government announced today that young unemployed couples without children (in Great Britain) will be expected to both actively seek work in order to claim Jobseeker's Allowance.

Leaving Jobseeker's Allowance for part-time work
March 2 2001 - An in-house report for the Department of Social Security identifies characteristics of clients leaving Jobseeker's Allowance (JSA) for part-time work (defined as work of under 16 hours per week) between 1996 and 1998, comparing them with characteristics of people leaving JSA for full-time work (over 16 hours per week).

New Deal: an Evaluation
October 26 2000 - Employment Minister Tessa Jowell argues that Britain's job market has the best employment features of its European and US equivalents. She said that the UK employment rate of 74.7% is the second highest in Europe (compared with the average of 62%).