Online retail giant Amazon has said it will create 5,000 new full-time jobs in the UK this year. The firm said it was looking for a range of staff including software developers and warehouse staff.more
Argos owner Sainsbury's has been fined £1.5m by HMRC for paying workers less than the minimum wage. Around 37,000 current and former Argos workers are to receive an average of £64 each after "incorrect" payments were discovered.more
A total of 31.8 million people were in work at the end of last year, while unemployment fell by 7,000 to 1.6 million. The jobless rate of 4.8 per cent is as low as it has been in a decade. About 300,000 more people were in work between October and December than in the same period in 2015, the Office for National Statistics Labour Market report said.more
Retail giants Debenhams and Peacocks are among 360 businesses named and shamed by the Government for underpaying thousands of workers a total of almost £1 million.more
Almost half of Poles (47%) is ready to go to work abroad - shows a report submitted by a group of Paylab, a member of the service MonsterPolska.pl.more
Aldi is hiring for new positions at its supermarkets and the salaries and benefits on offer are incredible. The budget German chain is luring would-be staff with bumper wage packets, including offering salaries for store managers that are almost double the UK average.more
Workers at the historic city institution Lloyd's of London have been banned from drinking during the day after around half of disciplinary cases were found to relate to alcohol.more
Employment in the construction industry grew by its fastest rate in 13 years last month fuelled by new building projects, according to official figures. The Ulster Bank construction purchasing managers' index, a seasonally adjusted snapshot designed to track changes, recorded a continued rise in activity across the construction sector in January.
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Variety, the platitude goes, is the spice of life. When it comes to lunch, however, millions of Britons are choosing bland and repetitive instead. More than three quarters of office workers have eaten the same midday meal for the past nine months, a study has found. One in six has chosen to repeat the same sandwich or salad for at least two years.more