Praca

The number of jobless people in the UK has dropped below levels seen before the pandemic struck for the first time, but earnings continue to fall behind rocketing inflation, according to official figures. more

Heathrow is to hire 12,000 staff to handle an expected summer holiday boom, the UK’s busiest airport has said, as it warned the recovery in the aviation industry is “being overshadowed by war and Covid”.more

Sadiq Khan says rising cost of living could decimate London’s “joyful diversity” with the poor being forced out. more

Before the war, among the Ukrainians coming to Poland 70 percent were men. Now come to us mainly women with children, so the labor market must also change - said Deputy Minister of Family and Social Policy Stanislaw Szwed.more

Nearly 40% of Polish women believe that they earn less than men working in the same positions, according to a survey. The same percentage has a different opinion on the matter, and one in five respondents does not know.more

From next month, big changes will come into force regarding the National Living Wage. The wage is set to rise by 6.6 per cent in April, from £8.91 an hour to £9.50 an hour.more

The strength of the UK’s labour market has recovered to pre-pandemic levels for the first time, according to new research.more

A groundbreaking academic study examining whether benefit sanctions are linked to claimant ill-health, including mental illness and suicide, has been halted after ministers reneged on a longstanding promise to release sanctions data.more

Some 2,000 workers at Sainsbury’s may lose their jobs after the supermarket is set to shut around 200 of its in-store cafes.more

Remote workers are being subjected to increased surveillance by employers, according to a report by UK workers union, The Trades Union Congress (TUC).more

Our labour market is able to absorb about 0.5 million workers from Ukraine within six months, and another 200 thousand at a later stage - assessed Tomasz Hanczarek, President of Personnel Service. Refugees should be provided with a fast track of formalities related to employment - he added.more

8 percent 60-year-olds feel discriminated against because of their age in the workplace; among people 40+, it is indicated by 3 percent. respondents - according to the report of the Polish Economic Institute.more

The knowledge of the German language is one of the most desirable language competences in companies. Entrepreneurs in Poland are actively looking for candidates who will be able to communicate with their western neighbors.more

Failure to vaccinate against COVID-19 by persons required to do so, including those working in hospitals and pharmacies, may result in the employer making changes to work arrangements and terminating the employment relationship, the Ministry of Health indicated today.more

Asda employees earn so little that they cannot afford to shop at the store, according to a recent survey by the GMB trade union. Some supermarket chain employees have to use food banks or rely on alms, it added.more

In January 2022, the increase in wages was not much higher than inflation - said Jakub Rybacki from the Polish Economic Institute in his commentary to the GUS data. In his opinion, salaries in the first half of the year will increase by 8.5 percent, and inflation will amount to around 8 percent.more

Staff are returning to UK offices in the highest numbers since the start of the Covid-19 crisis, according to an analysis of workplace occupancy but office use remains far below pre-pandemic levels. more

In the first decade of February, in comparison with the first half of January, there was a slight deterioration in evaluations of the situation at workplaces. Although still the majority (55%) of gainfully employed assessed it positively, there were fewer of them than in the previous twelve months, according to the CBOS survey.more

Tube workers in London are set for a massive pay rise which could see their salaries increase more than 8%. The increase is expected to cost Londoners as much as £100m.more

Ukrainian citizens working in Poland would most likely settle in our country permanently. Many of them speak Polish well, have higher education and would like to work in the area of their qualifications. You can read about how much the situation of Ukrainians on the Polish labor market has changed in the latest EWL Group Cross-Border Mobility Report.more

Employees are afraid to ask for pay rises, often preferring to change jobs rather than talk to their bosses about a pay rise - assessed labor market experts yesterday during the presentation of the results of the Labor Market Monitor by the Randstad Research Institute.more

Belgians will have the right to work four days a week - without losing their salary - under the government's change of labor law.more

Nearly one in three blue-collar workers have changed jobs during the pandemic, and one in two are confident they would easily get a new job in their specialty, according to a survey released yesterday. It pointed to an increase in demand for blue-collar workers.more

British employers expect to raise staff pay by the most in at least nine years but the 3% wage deals for workers would still be below fast-rising inflation, according to a survey published on Monday.more

London starting salaries are rising at their fastest rate on record in the latest signal that the capital’s economy is roaring back to life.more