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The number of modern slavery cases reported within the UK care industry has more than doubled in the past year. There were 109 potential victims, exploited for personal or financial gain, between January and March - twice as many as the same period in 2022.more

Mobile operator Virgin Media O2 is to slash up to 2,000 UK jobs, or 12% of its total workforce, by the end of this year. The figure includes 800 role reductions that were already announced, the BBC understands.more

Big pay increases for highly paid workers in London and the south-east have masked real wage cuts across large swathes of the economy and led to a widening in the UK’s geographical earnings gap, a leading thinktank has said.more

More than half of Polish employees find it hard to forget about professional matters even during their summer vacation. On the beach, they answer business phones, and some also answer business e-mails, although they are not on workation, today's "Rzeczpospolita" stresses.more

Transport unions have called off planned strikes on the Tube next week following last-minute talks. more

Doctors-specialists in England started a two-day strike today. According to public health authorities, it will have a greater negative impact on medical services than any of the previous protests in the last eight months.more

Jaguar Land Rover-owner Tata has confirmed plans to build its flagship electric car battery factory in the UK. more

There is still a gap between wages in eastern and western Germany, and it is even widening. In the west of Germany, people earn an average of 13,000 euros a year more than in the east. The Left Party calls this a "political scandal." - wrote the RND website.more

Bricklayers, plasterers and other construction jobs have been added to the government’s “shortage occupation list”, making it easier for foreign builders to come to Britain amid labour shortages partly caused by Brexit.more

Concerns over how the rise promised to teachers in England will be funded, and dismay at the lack of a long-term agreement on pay, has stirred opposition to the government’s offer among union members. more

In June, there were more job offers for workers in the service industry; the historic maximum for announcements was in the hospitality sector, according to the Job Opportunities Barometer. There were also more offers for low-skilled workers.more

NHS consultants in England have announced two more days of strikes over a long-running pay dispute.more

Nearly a thousand workers are set to take eight days of strike action at Gatwick Airport over the summer holidays in a row over pay, the Unite union has said. more

London is the capital of workplace toxicity, according to a new report, with over a million staff estimated to have taken time off due to challenges with their boss.more

Postal workers have accepted a deal to end a long-running row over pay and conditions, a union has said. more

MIGRANT STAFF coming to the UK to take up jobs in social care are being forced to pay back thousands of pounds in fees, housed in sub-standard accommodation and even forced to share beds with colleagues, says UNISON, the public service trade union.more

Wages have increased at a record rate amid fears that inflation could remain stubbornly high and result in further interest rate rises by the Bank of England.more

Some 1.7 million young people, or nearly a fifth of Italians aged 15 to 29, are not in education, employment or training of any kind. Only Romania is worse off in the EU, Istat, Italy's main statistics office, reported Friday.more

The UK's hospitality sector is still short-staffed and businesses fear they will struggle to cope over the busy summer holiday season.more

Wenecja poszukuje lekarzy. "Najpiękniejsze miasto świata czeka na was”- to hasło kampanii, w której podkreśla się, że oferowana jest tam medykom jakość życia, która nie ma sobie równej.more

The situation of temporary workers from Eastern European countries in the Netherlands is still not improving, according to a report published this week by the Dutch Labor Inspectorate (NLA). At least 67 percent of the temporary work agencies inspected in the last three years committed infringements.more

Rotterdam authorities want to organize entrepreneurship courses for teenage street drug sellers, reports the daily "De Telegraaf". In this way they want to teach them how to function in a legal business environment.more

To counter labor shortages, Germany needs 1.5 million immigrants a year, estimates economist Monika Schnitzer. In doing so, specialists do not necessarily need to know German - it is more important that immigration office employees speak English, explained Schnitzer, who heads the government's council of experts.more

70 percent Poles know a foreign language well enough to communicate with foreigners in the workplace to a basic degree, according to a study on the labor market. Nearly half of the respondents were willing to work in companies that allow remote work from abroad - Spain, Italy or Germany.more

Employers should hire more ex-offenders to help fill Britain’s 1.1 million job vacancies, a new report argues. ReGenerate’s Good Jobs Project, set to launch on Monday, is lobbying to get those from marginalised groups, such as young people in or leaving care and the “invisibly disabled”, into work to address the “vacancy crisis” and help people.more