UK Job Market Articles

Employment Statistics
April 16 2008 - The unemployment rate remained at 5.2% - down 0.1% over the quarter and down 0.4% on last year.

Gloomy Prognosis For 2008
January 7 2008 - CIPD forecasts a reduction in public sector jobs

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.

Migrants Boost Labour Market
June 19 2007 - A newly published TUC study concludes that the massive inflow of migrants to the UK is a significant benefit to the UK economy citing Treasury estimates that migrant workers are responsible for around 10% of economic growth.

More UK Jobs Created Than Destroyed
February 25 2007 -

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.

Migrants Boost Labour Market
November 26 2006 - Recent Home Office figures show that the rate of migration from central and eastern Europe is falling.

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.

London worst region in the UK for unemployment
Amended June 19 2006 - The rate of unemployment in London is 7.6% (January to March) according to the Labour Force Survey. This is almost 1 percentage point higher than the next region, the North East of England which has a rate of 6.7% for the same period.

Recruitment difficulties to continue
January 20 2005 - The CIPD's quarterly survey of HR trends and indicators shows that employers believe that recruitment difficulties will continue into the first quarter of 2005, but pay restraint will also continue.

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).

Ambition: IT
March 26 2001 - Gordon Brown, Chancellor of the Exchequer, speaking at the launch of Ambition:IT, announced 5,000 new job opportunities in the first sectoral employer-led new deal initiative.

2 million new SME jobs in 10 years
23 March 2001 - A report from the UK Government's Futures programme, Foresight predicts a rise in the number of small businesses of nearly 1 million.

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).

Record number of women in work
February 7 2001 - The UK has the third highest rate of female employment in Europe with a record 70% of women at work: 12.5 million (843,000 more than there were ten years ago).

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%).