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Responding to this morning’s ONS labour market figures, Chief Executive of the Recruitment & Employment Confederation (REC) Neil Carberry said:

In reaction to today’s ONS Labour Market Statistics report, Lee Biggins, CEO and Founder of CV-Library, the UK's leading independent job board said:

Article by Nicolas Speeckaert, provider of AI predictive talent acquisition software

Following the recent ONS data on working from home, Andy Ingham, Senior Vice President Sales, EMEA & APAC at Bullhorn says:

By Nick Nooren, Head of Proteus Marketplace developed by Xergy:

In recent weeks, many agencies and umbrella companies have been concerned about reports in the press and circulating through social media that contractors who provide services through an umbrella company are having employer NICs and other employer costs unlawfully deducted from their pay packet. Adrian Marlowe explains the position.

By James McGill, Vice President, Customer Success at HireVue

Gerwyn Davies, senior labour market adviser for the CIPD, the professional body for HR and people development comments on today’s ONS figures:

Employers’ confidence in their ability to hire new staff rose to net: +7 in November 2020-January 2021, an increase of two percentage points on the previous rolling quarter, according to new REC data.

The CIPD, the professional body for HR and people development, has responded to the news that gender pay gap reporting enforcement will be delayed until Monday 4 October 2021

Comments from Patrick Brodie, Employment Partner at law firm RPC:

In response to this morning’s ONS labour market statistics, Neil Carberry, Chief Executive of the Recruitment & Employment Confederation (REC), said:

CIPD responds to latest labour market statistics

With the unemployment rate standing at 5.1%, today’s ONS unemployment figures show that the UK is a very different country to the one it was less than 12-months ago.

The latest ONS figures show the UK unemployment rate in the three months from October to December 2020 was an estimated 5.1%, 1.3% higher than a year earlier and 0.4% than the previous quarter. The redundancy rate during the same period was estimated at 12.3 people per thousand employees, slightly improved on the record high reported in January 2021.