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Commenting on the latest ONS UK Labour Productivity figures, Ian Brinkley, Acting Chief Economist at the CIPD, the professional body for HR and people development, said:

Lynn Cahillane, Jobs Expert at totaljobs said:

Dean Forbes, CEO of CoreHR commented:

Commenting on Sajid Javid’s plans to exempt doctors and nurses from the tier 2 visa cap the Recruitment & Employment Confederation’s head of policy, Sophie Wingfield says:

Kirstie Donnelly MBE, Managing Director of City & Guilds and ILM, said

Following the news of this morning’s Pimlico Plumbers ruling, comment from Chris McCullough, CEO and co-founder at Rotageek.

Raman Sankaran, Chief Commercial Officer – Growth & Innovation at Simplyhealth, said:

The government should write into statute a positive definition of self-employment to avoid the type of uncertainty over who is and who isn’t a contractor which led to the Pimlico Plumbers case, IPSE (the Association of Independent Professionals and the Self-Employed) says.

Following the news of £2.3bn in tech investments and the creation of 1,600 new tech jobs in the UK, Graham Smith, head of marketing at Microsoft recruitment partner Curo Talent believes we do not have access to enough talent to fill these vacancies:

Commenting on the latest ONS Labour Market Statistics, Ian Brinkley, Acting Chief Economist at the CIPD, the professional body for HR and people development, says:

Tara Sinclair, economist and senior fellow at global job site, Indeed, comments:

By Martin Talbot, Director at totaljobs:

Dean Forbes, CEO of CoreHR comments:

Research has revealed that one in four full-time workers in the UK would prefer to work part-time, provided it didn’t affect their hourly pay or career progression.

The 25th of May has been and gone, so what shall we talk about now? GDPR of course!