The UK has suffered the biggest drop in employment of G7 countries through the pandemic, leaving employers short of workers. New research by Learning and Work Institute suggests that a plan to get 1.7 million people back to work could boost the economy by £23 billion per year and increase annual incomes of the poorest…

As Covid-19 restrictions have been lifted the labour market picture continues to show a top-line increase in the employment level but with a paradoxical (and sharp) increase in the number vacancies across the labour market as a whole. In fact, as the Institute for Employment Studies reports, vacancies have hit one million for the first…