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The Department for Work and Pensions is offering a six-figure salary as it seeks a technology leader to oversee the creation of a new computing infrastructure and the delivery of its digital services. The DWP is recruiting for a digital delivery dire...

The Supreme Court has rule that Employment Tribunal fees are illegal. A case had been brought by the Trade Union Unison. The charges to bring a case to an Emplyment Tribunal ranged from £390 to £1,200. Prior to 2013 it was free. The Gover...

Mr Clegg of the ONS kindly responds.  Mr Collyer, Thanks for your e-mail. Your linked piece asks about the international definition of unemployment, which we use in our labour market statistics. These are specified by the International Labour Or...

HMRC have been busy.  The naming and shaming scheme was revised in October 2013 to make it simpler to name and shame employers that do not comply with minimum wage rules. The 197 cases named today (11 August 2016) were thoroughly investigated by...

There is a lot of talk going on about the Unemployment Statistics.  Real unemployment is being claimed as more than four times the official figures. Around 21.5% of all working-age people (defined as ages 16 to 64) are without jobs, or 8.83 mill...

The proportion of economically active people aged 16 and over who are out of work and seeking work is known as the unemployment rate. As shown at Figure 11 (which shows unemployment rates for people, men and women), the lowest unemployment rate for p...

Plaid Cymru has warned that up to 3,700 families in Wales have lost out on support after the Labour Welsh Government cut the Family Fund budget. The fund, which distributes grants to families with ill and disabled children, helped 1,686 families last...

Parents across Scotland have been warned that child benefit and child tax credits will stop if they don't tell the taxman of their child's educational status by the end of this month. HM Revenue and Customs says that parents must let them know by Aug...

New analysis shows single parents will be £3,100 a year worse off under Universal Credit (UC), as Labour calls for a halt to the Government’s welfare reforms. Analysis from the House of Commons Library, published today by Labour, has reve...

To understand why Mrs Merkel is poised to win the election, one need look no further than Tuesday’s report on Germany’s second quarter GDP. The economy expanded at a rate of 2.1 percent on an annualized basis, a robust pace. Unemploy...