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UK employment

  • Friday, 30 May, 2025
    Personal Finance
    Reader callout: would younger UK employees benefit by working on continent?
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  • Friday, 30 May, 2025
    News in-depthUK immigration
    ‘I’ve been tricked’: highly paid foreign workers reconsider ties to UK after rule change

    White-collar professionals fear being ‘kept in limbo’ after ministers extend waiting time for indefinite leave to remain

    Alexander Chreky
  • Monday, 26 May, 2025
    Sick need support to stay in work, says former John Lewis chair

    Charlie Mayfield speaks out as ministers face pressure over planned cuts to disability benefits

    Charlie Mayfield, former chair of John Lewis
  • Tuesday, 20 May, 2025
    UK youth risk jobs ‘scrap heap’ without urgent action, minister says

    New research shows people from disadvantaged backgrounds 66% more likely not to be in work, education or training

    Alison McGovern
  • Friday, 16 May, 2025
    News in-depthUK immigration
    ‘It will be horrendous’: care crisis warning as UK ends overseas recruitment

    Providers say ministers have ‘not been upfront’ about the barriers facing the sector

    Stella Shaw
  • Tuesday, 13 May, 2025
    UK wage growth eases as jobs market weakens

    Economists say Bank of England will stick with a cautious approach to rate cuts

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  • Tuesday, 13 May, 2025
    Sarah O'Connor
    The minimum wage is now coming for white-collar work

    It’s not destroying jobs but it is catching up with the lower rungs of graduate roles

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  • Monday, 12 May, 2025
    UK immigration
    Starmer faces business backlash over UK migration curbs

    Tough proposals including ending automatic settlement after five years would end ‘squalid chapter’ for country, PM says

    Keir Starmer, UK prime minister
  • Monday, 12 May, 2025
    UK immigration
    Starmer seeks to cut UK migration and refocus it on graduate work

    PM’s plan reverses post-Brexit liberalisation that allowed foreigners to fill positions in industries such as adult care

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  • Monday, 12 May, 2025
    UK immigration
    UK immigration plan: the key points

    A summary of the measures the government is taking in its quest to cut net migration

    Keir Starmer
  • Monday, 12 May, 2025
    Is the UK failing its graduates?

    Young people are bearing the brunt of a long-term slowdown in the labour market, data shows

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  • Sunday, 11 May, 2025
    UK jobs slowdown hits education and healthcare as spending cuts bite

    Tight public sector budgets are a growing issue for labour market, surveys find

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  • Sunday, 11 May, 2025
    UK immigration
    Migrants will have to spend decade in UK before applying to stay

    Government to also end visas for care workers as part of immigration clampdown

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  • Sunday, 11 May, 2025
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    Are Trump’s tariffs already boosting US inflation? 

    Market Questions is the FT’s guide to the week ahead

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  • Tuesday, 6 May, 2025
    UK employment tribunal backlog hits record high

    Queue of cases nears 50,000 as shortage of qualified judges leaves businesses and employees waiting

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  • Tuesday, 29 April, 2025
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    MPs urge Rachel Reeves to extend paternity leave

    Calls on chancellor come as research suggests UK economy would benefit from more generous offering to new fathers

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  • Monday, 28 April, 2025
    UK government spending
    UK government clashes with unions over public sector pay

    Health and education workers urged to ‘recognise reality of financial position’ in bid to head off strike action

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  • Sunday, 27 April, 2025
    UK risks ‘lost generation’ of young workers, business warns

    Employers concerned by official data suggesting nearly 1mn aged 16-24 not in education, employment or training, says BCC

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  • Thursday, 17 April, 2025
    UK business groups urge peers to amend worker rights’ legislation

    CBI and Make UK among bodies to warn that flagship bill will have ‘deeply damaging implications’ for economic growth

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  • Tuesday, 15 April, 2025
    What rhymes with ‘fresco’ and possibly skewed Britain’s employment data?

    Shock and AWE

  • Tuesday, 15 April, 2025
    UK jobs market weakens as economy faces tariff hit

    Payrolled employment falls even as wage growth remains strong

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  • Monday, 14 April, 2025
    Special Report
    Modern Workplace: Disability

    Progress on disability employment is at risk under Trump policies; accessible transport is a route to more pay and out of worklessness; Rosie Jones on the curse of ableism and discrimination; how quotas push Chile ahead of Ireland and improve job prospects for more

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  • Monday, 14 April, 2025
    Special ReportModern Workplace: Disability
    The squeeze for UK graduate posts hits disabled jobseekers hard

    On average, they submit 60% more job applications than non-disabled people, with many employers casting doubt on their ability

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  • Wednesday, 2 April, 2025
    Inside Politics
    Minimum wage rises do not seem to boost UK productivity

    Big increases in statutory wage floor has raised workplace intensity, shutting some jobseekers out of employment

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  • Tuesday, 1 April, 2025
    Work Watch
    The enduring pay gap for disabled people

    Ministers say welfare cuts will help more benefit claimants into employment — but work doesn’t always reward everyone fairly

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