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08/18/2026

Zero-hours ban to cost UK firms up to £2.9bn a year

A record 1.23 million people in the UK were on zero-hours contracts last December, a rise of 91,000 in a single year according to Office for National Statistics (ONS) data - and if you are among them, the reforms now working their way through ...

08/13/2026

6 min

UK builds AI jobs 'early warning' data system as workers worry

The AI Security Institute (AISI) has signed a one-year commercial contract with workforce data specialist Revelio Labs, valued at £96,000 and starting on 21 August 2026, to build what the procurement notice describes as an early warning c...

08/10/2026

8 min

ISE 2026 data: UK graduate hiring shifts toward work samples as AI distorts the application signal

Two-thirds of UK graduate employers now doubt whether a polished application reflects what a candidate can actually do. The Institute of Student Employers' (ISE) 2026 Student Development Survey recorded that 67% of employers were concerned ...

08/03/2026

7 min

Lloyds Barometer: UK construction hiring intent reaches highest level this year

If you work in construction, or you have been weighing up a move into a trade, the hiring signal in July 2026 is hard to ignore. According to the Lloyds Bank Business Barometer, 65% of UK construction firms said they plan to take on more staff ...

08/03/2026

7 min

Employment Rights Act 2025: day-one SSP now covers 1.3 million more workers

The Employment Rights Act 2025 brought the most significant rewrite of Statutory Sick Pay rules in a generation, effective 6 April 2026. The three-day waiting period that once absorbed short absences without payment is gone, the Lower Earnings ...

08/03/2026

8 min

AI CV Screening Under Fire: UK Government Warns Employers on Youth Hiring

A podcast appearance by the Prime Minister has placed two specific hiring practices, virtual interviews and AI CV-screening, into the centre of a political conversation about youth unemployment that HR leaders would be unwise to treat as ...

07/29/2026

7 min

MAC trims TSL to 28 occupations, pushing HR and legal employers to rebuild domestic pipelines

A decision published on 23 July 2026 by the Migration Advisory Committee (MAC) rewrites the sponsorship landscape for tens of thousands of workers and the employers who hire them. The MAC, the independent body that advises the UK government on ...

07/29/2026

7 min

CIPD and Brightmine data signal the end of UK pay catch-up, with nearly half of settlements cut in 2026

The headline number looks steady, but the picture underneath it is considerably less comfortable. Brightmine's analysis of 268 pay settlements covering more than 3.6 million UK employees between April and June 2026 shows the median pay award ...

07/29/2026

7 min

Grantham Institute's £1.15bn heat finding: HSE gap leaves UK's lowest-paid exposed

During the final week of June 2026, temperatures in parts of the UK exceeded 37°C and the country lost an estimated 24 million working hours. Research from the London School of Economics' Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the E...

07/29/2026

8 min

Survey: cost control, not AI, is squeezing UK graduate hiring in 2026

The Deloitte CFO Survey for Q2 2026, drawn from finance leaders at FTSE 100 and FTSE 250 companies and conducted in early July 2026, puts a precise number on what many graduates have been sensing: a net 64% of chief financial officers cite cost ...

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