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It is worth verifying employers already at the stage of applying for summer jobs and beware of advertisements offering high salaries for minimal commitment, labour market experts point out. They advise how not to be fooled when choosing summer job offers.more

Amazon warehouse staff in Coventry have voted for six more months of strikes, the GMB has said. more

Employers are being urged to relax dress codes and allow staff to work at cooler times of the day to help them cope with the current heatwave. The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) said other measures include using blinds or reflective film on workplace windows to shade workers from the sun, and making sure there is plenty of drinking water.more

In the third quarter of this year, 31 percent. entrepreneurs plan to hire new employees, and 17 percent. reduce jobs - according to the report "ManpowerGroup Employment Perspectives Barometer". 48 percent companies want to leave employment at the current level - added. The surveyed companies were asked about employment plans from July to the end of September this year.more

24 percent women and 15 percent of men in Poland have personally experienced mobbing at work, according to a study conducted by Pracuj.pl. 71 percent of the respondents decided to silent protests, without reporting the problem to superiors or relevant authorities, it added.more

The pace of basic wage growth accelerated to a record high in the 12 months to April, according to the latest official employment figures that lock in the prospect of further interest rate increases.more

New report has revealed the “shocking” levels of exploitation and abuse suffered by migrant workers in the capital. more

During lockdowns caused by the pandemic, remote work has become commonplace, some people have not returned to their offices to this day. Thanks to this, companies have savings, employees do not waste time commuting. However, subsequent research shows that working from home does not necessarily provide more comfort than in the office. One of the side effects is the so-called digital stress.more

One in five fathers are not taking any paternity leave, mainly because they cannot afford to reduce their income, damning new research suggests. more

London has held its position as the fourth most expensive city for expatriates in a global cost-of-living study.more

After a weak April, May has heated up the Polish labour market. The number of offers online and in offices increased, reports today's 'Rzeczpospolita'.more

Kraków remains a significant center for the global IT industry, according to a report on the IT market in the capital of Małopolska. Companies in this sector employ approx. 55,000 people in Kraków. specialists, and about 40 international entities have arrived there in the last year.more

More than half of office workers are dissatisfied with their earnings, according to a report by the RocketJobs.pl job portal. Employees regret, among other things, that they did not ask their current employer for a raise and did not negotiate a higher salary during the recruitment process.more

The quality of customer service on the Polish market is successively declining, as indicated by periodic surveys conducted by the Polish Service Quality Program. The latest edition of this survey shows that Poles assess the worst, among others, knowledge and competences of employees, service time as well as prices and availability of the assortment.more

Actiris, a publicly funded employment agency in Brussels, asks artists looking for work if they would be willing to act in pornographic films. The far-left Workers' Party of Belgium (PTB-PVDA) expressed indignation at the situation and demands the immediate withdrawal of such offers.more

In the coming era, the challenges for Poland will be the decreasing working-age population, the increase in the burden on the health care system and the relatively low quality of higher education, experts from McKinsey & Company indicated.more

There are now more non-EU than EU workers in a number of sectors that were previously reliant on European citizens, demonstrating the Brexit effect and the impact of international events on immigration patterns. more

More than one million NHS staff in England will start to receive increased salaries and one-off payments from today. more

Canary Wharf’s credit rating has been downgraded as London companies struggle to draw white collar workers back to the office full-time. Moody’s warned that the office district faced a “difficult operating and funding environment” as it cut its outlook for Canary Wharf Group.more

Parents and grandparents who work in Amazon warehouses will be able to choose to work in term-time only.more

29 per cent of parents have a clear vision of the work their offspring would do in the future, and 61 per cent of respondents do not want to interfere in their child's choice of profession, according to the Pracuj.pl survey. A third of parents worry that their children will make the same career mistakes as them.more

50 million people are victims of modern slavery. 28 million are victims of bonded labour, 22 million of forced marriage. 12 million victims are children, say the authors of the Global Slavery Index. The Walk Free Foundation published the latest edition of the report on Wednesday, AP reported.more

Unclear way of settling hours worked, insufficient health insurance, expensive and moldy quarters - seasonal workers on German plantations work in dramatically bad conditions - according to the report "This is not Europe. Exploitation in the harvest of asparagus, strawberries and vegetables in Germany", prepared by Oxfam an international humanitarian organization.more

Sadiq Khan should slash Tube fares on Mondays and Fridays to entice more people back to the office, according to a leading think-tank. more

A 33-year-old former maths teacher from an Oxford secondary school has been disbarred for addressing a female pupil who claims to be a boy according to her biological sex, the Daily Telegraph reported on Tuesday. According to the daily, this is likely to be the first such case in the UK.more