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  • Date:
    1 April 2025
    Type:
    News

    Large firms 'reshoring' to diversify supply chains

    Large organisations across Europe and the US are intensifying their focus on reindustrialisation to mitigate concerns over supply chain pressures, rising tariffs and trade disputes, according to research.

  • Type:
    Economic data

    Inflation

    Updated to include official inflation data from the ONS for February 2025, along with the latest forecasts for RPI and CPI inflation from our panel of economists. The next ONS release date is 16 April 2025.

  • Type:
    Economic data

    Employment

    Updated to include the latest official statistics from the ONS on employment and unemployment. The next ONS release date is 15 April 2025. 

  • Type:
    Economic data

    Recruitment

    Updated to include data for February 2025 on the availability and recruitment of permanent and temporary staff from the KPMG and REC UK Report on Jobs compiled by S&P Global in association with the Recruitment & Employment Confederation (REC). 

  • Date:
    3 January 2025
    Type:
    News

    Cost of employing low-wage staff to hit record high

    The cost of employing low-wage workers will hit a record high in 2025, according to an analysis by the Centre for Policy Studies.

  • Date:
    12 December 2024
    Type:
    News

    UK labour market outlook uncertain post budget

    The UK's labour market outlook is uncertain following October's budget announcement, data from Indeed has indicated.

  • Date:
    7 November 2024
    Type:
    Commentary and insights

    What Another Trump Administration Means for HR in the US

    This resource summarizes how another Trump presidency may affect key employment law issues that directly impact HR, including EEO, wage and hour and payroll among others.

  • Date:
    30 October 2024
    Type:
    Commentary and insights

    Employment experts react to Rachel Reeves's Budget

    The Budget, the first in the UK by a female chancellor, was designed to fill a public spending black hole, boost public services, secure financial compensation for victims of scandals, and maintain defence spending. Labour has sought to stand by its manifesto commitments and not apply extra taxes to 'working people'. However, as our panel of experts says, businesses will see considerable added costs.

  • Date:
    25 July 2024
    Type:
    News

    DWP fleshes out welfare reform plans

    The Department for Work and Pensions has set out its blueprint for getting people back into work, after a report by Labour adviser Alan Milburn called for the long-term sick to be forced to seek work.

  • Date:
    17 July 2024
    Type:
    News

    Employment Rights Bill: What will be in Labour's new legislation?

    The new government confirmed that it would bring forward an Employment Rights Bill in the King's Speech today (17 July) - legislation that will "ban exploitative practices and enhance employment rights".

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