The UK government's Migration Advisory Committee recommended retention of the controversial minimum salary threshold when it published its recommendations for a post-Brexit immigration system on Tuesday.
International Women’s Day 2017: Ruth Holmes asks Julia Howes, principal of strategic workforce planning and analytics at Mercer, how workplace trends, like automation, are likely to affect gender diversity.
Reservations over the long-term efficacy of two of the government's new visa routes into the UK are being voiced by business executives and an expert in immigration law.
Cities in Europe and around the world have already begun competing for the attention of UK companies who are seeking to move all (or some) of their operations overseas in the wake of Brexit.
A study published this week by the Recruitment and Employment Federation highlights demand for staff reached a 21-month peak in May, while permanent candidate availability experienced its sharpest drop since August 2015.
The road to Brexit is filled with “deep holes”, asserted Toby Peyton-Jones, HR director for UK and North-West Europe at Siemens. But the focus should be beyond Brexit.
The UK government has published it's post-Brexit immigration policy white paper which does not set in stone the £30,000 minimum salary limit neither give details of target immigration levels.
The UK's leading manufacturers' organisation has become the second major business group in a week to demand the next government relax immigration restrictions to enable companies to hire skilled foreign labour.
As the first frosts of winter arrived in the UK, so did data from the government’s statistical bureau that sent a shiver through some: in one year, net migration to Britain had soared to more than half a million – a figure unprecedented since records began in 1964. David Sapsted reports.
We talked to Professor Kirby author of Neurodiversity at Work: Drive Innovation, Performance and Productivity with a Neurodiverse Workforce, and discovered more about her passion for encouraging more neurodiversity in the workplace, and how organisations can help to make the recruitment process fairer and more equitable to encourage greater inclusivity.
The UK’s unemployment total has fallen to its lowest level in more than a decade, according to official from the Office for National Statistics.
A large international study of CEOs and HR managers identifies the key issues occupying business leaders' agendas. People strategies and talent shortages are their number one concern.
All foreign nationals – including EU27 citizens – will require some form of “leave” to enter the country after Brexit, Home Secretary Sajid Javid has told MPs.
Oxfordshire has been rated as the best area of the UK to find a job in an analysis by global jobs site Indeed.
Will the new UK points-based immigration system attract the ‘brightest and best’ or does it unfairly discriminate against much needed ‘low-skilled’ workers? David Sapsted explores the ramifications of the new proposals and reactions from industry experts.
The UK government has launched a nationwide marketing campaign aimed at ensuring businesses are prepared for the introduction of the new, points-based immigration system at the start of 2021.
The number of job vacancies in the UK hit a yet another new high in the last quarter of 2021 as companies reported increasing problems hiring the skills they needed.
The last seven years have seen growing public support for legal immigration to the UK, according to the latest survey conducted annually by polling company Ipsos.
Job vacancies in the UK fell for the fifth month in a row in the quarter to the end of November but remain at historically high levels, according to the latest official estimates.
Given the global talent shortages, what steps can companies make to spot talent earlier and encourage more women and minorities into senior roles? Marianne Curphey reports