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Due to rapid business growth, leading temporary labour procurer de Poel has appointed Ellie Watts in their Operations department

Flexibility and work life balance concerns are turning a third of all female lawyers off the idea of partnership

Poor professional advice from third parties or consultants has resulted in one in six (16 per cent) small and micro businesses (the equivalent of around 320,000 enterprises) losing money, according to new research published by Direct Line for Business.

HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) and The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) have offered young people with autism work experience as part of an ‘Insight Programme’ developed in partnership with Ambitious about Autism

More than one in three (35%) office workers in the UK have admitted to finding their work away days boring, with over a third (37%) confessing they actually dread them, according to new statistics released by the British Heart Foundation (BHF)

As results day beckons for both GCSE and A Level students, research undertaken by QA Apprenticeships, the UK’s leading IT and business apprentice training provider, found that 80% of students know little or nothing about IT and professional apprenticeships

According to the Office for National Statistics (ONS), employment levels dipped by 63,000 in the three months to June, representing an employment rate of 73.4% and the second consecutive quarterly fall

Staffordshire business, Busy Bees Benefits says public sector workers may not have to lose their jobs in the wake of a new language policy to be introduced in September. The company, which specialises in employee benefit schemes, says that members of staff could be given more time to improve their skills can use an Earn and Learn scheme to help retain their jobs

MedicsPro, part of Urban Recruitment Group, have continued to expand on their Midlands stronghold by opening another office in Birmingham City Centre

Seb O'Connell, Executive Vice President and Managing Director for Europe, comments

The Tech Partnership, the network of employers collaborating to create the skills for the digital economy, is using ONS and survey data to highlight the need for businesses in all sectors to embrace tech apprenticeships as a key weapon in the battle for faster business growth. Apprenticeships are rapidly growing in popularity and sophistication. They provide a way to attract new talent into digital careers and address a widening gap in the supply of skilled recruits

Employment rate for 16-24 year olds not in full-time education remains near 10-year high

Andrew Hunter, co-founder of Adzuna, comments

The numbers of people in employment has fallen and the numbers unemployed has risen on a quarterly basis for the second month running, according to the labour market statistics released today, perhaps suggesting that the four-year long UK jobs boom is coming to an end

IPSE, the Association of Independent Professionals and the Self Employed, has warned that the Government must provide better support to the self-employed if it wants to continue growing a flexible and healthy economy