The continuing Eurozone crisis has caused a sharp fall in confidence among senior business leaders and the possibility of a second banking crisis is weighing heavily on corporate sentiment, the CBI said today (Sunday). On the eve of its flagship Annual Conference, the CBI revealed the findings of new...

Cloud-computing is an innovation destined to foster wealth and enterprise on an epic scale in Britain – a “gateway to explode entrepreneurship”. This is the message which emerged from an appropriately fog-shrouded Tower 42 in the city of London early today, where some of the UK’s leading entrepreneurs and...

Commenting on the UK unemployment statistics showing more than one million young people out of work, Managing Director of Manpower UK, Mark Cahill said: “It’s all too easy to just gloomily sink our heads into our hands but there are still opportunities for young people with the right attitude....

Ahead of the Sickness and Absence Review, the Department of Work and Pensions has this week released further research into the fit note. Commenting on the research, Diane Buckley, Managing Director of Legal & General’s Group Income Protection business, said: “The report shows that while progress is being made...

The latest phase of the Government’s RedTape Challenge is focusing on employment regulations. As part of this the REC has been in dialogue with the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) with regards to a radical streamlining of the Conduct Regulations. The REC has previously engaged with the...

For most UK graduates employment is steadily increasing, unemployment is slowly decreasing and those in graduate level jobs has reached a record high, according to research published today (7 November 2011) by the Higher Education Careers Services Unit (HECSU). HECSU’s annual, What Do Graduates Do? reports the destinations of ...

In just under nine months the eyes of the world will be focussed on London, with billions set to tune in to the Olympic Games from right across the globe. But it’s the visitors to the capital, expected to be around the 10 million mark, that will really decide...

Over a quarter (27{6060b2de664e4eaa3e7b7e86961ce2c4bbd7a29b6c1097abf8257a4e5b07383e}) of jobseekers expect to still be looking for work in 12 months time, as jobseekers confidence continues to collapse the totaljobs.com survey of nearly 6,000 jobseekers revealed nearly a fifth (17{6060b2de664e4eaa3e7b7e86961ce2c4bbd7a29b6c1097abf8257a4e5b07383e}) have been seeking employment for over 12 months already. The news comes as the...

The latest phase of the Government’s RedTape Challenge is focusing on employment regulations. As part of this the REC has been in dialogue with the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) with regards to a radical streamlining of the Conduct Regulations. The REC has previously engaged with the...

Following media stories this week on how leading employers are implementing AWR, the REC has underlined the variety of ways that businesses can build flexibility into their workforce. Options such as the ‘Swedish Derogation’ model do not provide ‘get-out clauses’ but rather legitimate new supply methods. The key is...