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Karen Jones, Group HR Director at Redrow, said: “Today’s figures for March show the steepest decline in apprenticeship starts to date.

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:

Latest figures published by the Department of Education show that apprenticeship starts have fallen once again

Three quarters of recruitment leaders expect to see skills shortages within the sectors they operate increase over the next two years.

Campaign launched at Girls in Tech Catalyst event a forum to empower women in tech

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.

The Recruitment and Employment Confederation (REC) council election results were announced at the Annual General Meeting today.

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

…As 42.9% reveal that aspects of their job cause them to feel anxious or depressed

Acquisition expands PeopleScout’s EMEA client base, team and operations

Brits taking a career break could lose as much as £1,300 off their annual salary over the course of an average 47 year career*, costing more than £60,000, according to new research from Adzuna.

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:

Today’s labour market statistics published by the Office for National Statistics (ONS), shows wage growth continues. Average weekly earnings for employees in the UK in real terms increased by 0.4% excluding bonuses, and by 0.1% including bonuses, compared with a year earlier.