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09/08/2026

Centre for Ageing Better's NETER metric exposes the 2.9 million older workers UK hiring funnels filter out

Nearly 2.9 million people in the UK aged 50 to state pension age are neither working, training, in education nor retired. The Centre for Ageing Better has coined a term for this group: NETER. What makes the figure arresting is its scale relative ...

09/08/2026

6 min

CIPD pay equity lens: the £650 compression gap putting UK junior retention at risk

A £650 annual pay gap sits at the centre of a quiet retention problem spreading across UK workplaces. That figure, drawn from research by HR software specialist Iris Software Group covering 500 UK employees with two to five years of experience a...

09/08/2026

6 min

6.3m UK workers face insecure hours ahead of new law

The compliance timetable for the Employment Rights Act 2025 is now fixed, and the secondary legislation that will calibrate its most operationally demanding provisions is being shaped right now. The government confirmed that the Act's ...

09/07/2026

8 min

UK work visa collapse: what CIPD-era workforce plans must address now

UK work visa grants have collapsed to their lowest level since the post-pandemic reopening, and the numbers carry real consequences for anyone whose career plans cross a border. In the year to June 2026, 235,000 work visas (including dependants) ...

09/07/2026

6 min

Home Office right-to-work expansion exposes HR boards to £45,000-per-worker risk

From 1 October 2026, the right-to-work regime governed by the Immigration, Asylum and Nationality Act 2006 (sections 15 to 25) extends well beyond the PAYE workforce to cover workers on contracts for services, individual sub-contractors and ...

08/19/2026

7 min

ONS construction data: 31,000 vacancies open as insolvencies hit a decade high

The Office for National Statistics published its latest construction vacancy data on 18 August 2026, and the split it reveals is genuinely striking. UK construction job openings are at a two-year high. Construction company collapses are at a ...

08/19/2026

7 min

ONS and HMRC PAYE data: private sector real pay is still falling in August 2026

The figure on your payslip may have grown since last year, but for a significant share of private sector workers across the UK, that number is buying less than it did twelve months ago. The joint HMRC and Office for National Statistics (ONS) PAYE ...

08/19/2026

8 min

CIPD and ONS data: UK's entry-level freeze locks out almost 600,000 young jobseekers

The Office for National Statistics released its August 2026 labour market update on 18 August, and the headline figure for young people is stark: almost 600,000 people aged 18 to 24 are unemployed and seeking work, youth unemployment sits at ...

08/18/2026

7 min

REC data confirms UK summer jobs rebound, but starter roles lag behind

Bars are hiring. Festival crews are hiring. Hotel front desks across coastal England are pinning up vacancy cards. If you have spent recent weeks scrolling job boards and quietly worrying the British summer job had disappeared for good, the data ...

08/18/2026

7 min

UK to scale SEN supported internships as youth jobs crisis deepens

Nearly 1 million 16-to-24-year-olds in the UK are currently classified as NEET (not in employment, education or training), the highest level in a decade. Against that figure, England currently runs just 4,500 supported internship places for ...

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