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08/18/2026

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 ...

08/18/2026

7 min

Working from home deepens loneliness for young UK workers

If you are under 30 and working mostly from your bedroom, kitchen table, or a quiet corner of a shared flat, the data has finally caught up with what you already feel. Young men now spend roughly 6.5 hours of their waking day alone. Young women, ...

08/18/2026

10 min

UK unions demand workplace heat rules as hospitals hit 41.8C

A hospital ward in Manchester recorded 41.8°C in June. A London bus cab pushed past 40°C. A pub kitchen in north London faced a collapsing service with fans that, as head chef Joshua Swinney described, did little more than move hot air around. No...

08/18/2026

9 min

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...

08/13/2026

8 min

Border Security Act 2025 rewires contractor compliance for UK HR teams

From 1 October 2026, the expansion of right-to-work obligations under the Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Act 2025 pulls self-employed contractors, agency workers, and platform-matched labour into the same verification regime that ...

08/10/2026

6 min

UK graduate hiring hits pandemic lows as AI literacy bar rises

Graduate vacancies across the United Kingdom have fallen to their weakest point for this time of year since 2020, dropping around 7% below the equivalent period in 2025, according to Indeed's mid-year UK labour market update. The timing is ...

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

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...

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