February 2022

UK wage growth continued to lag behind the rising cost of living between October and December, figures show. Wages rose, but when taking inflation into account, pay showed a 0.8% fall from a year earlier, said the Office for National Statistics (ONS). Latest figures also show that the unemployment rate fell to 4.1% while job […]

A quarter of British employers have cited long COVID as a main cause of long-term sickness absences, a survey by a professional body has recently found, adding that it raised questions over how workers with the condition were being supported in their jobs. Prime Minister Boris Johnson is leading a strategy for the country to

Moving to a shorter working week could help to close the gender pay gap, according to a new report recently released. When unpaid and paid work is combined, women continue to work longer hours than men but for less money, while overwork and overproduction are a direct cause of climate change, the Women’s Budget Group

There could be as many as a million missing workers in the UK job market, experts say. Latest figures suggest that the vast majority of livelihoods survived the end of the furlough scheme, designed to protect the economy from the ravages of the COVID-19 pandemic. Fears of a huge spike in unemployment when the support

Millions of households will typically pay an extra £693 a year on their energy bills from April, but chancellor Rishi Sunak said his support plan would take the \”sting\” out of the rise. The sharp rise in energy bills will put a further squeeze on people already facing higher prices and rising taxes. The chancellor