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Roughly 53% of manufacturing SMEs intend to recruit new employees this year with the average growth in staff numbers being estimated at around 4%, recent research by Clydesdale and Yorkshire Banks was able to reveal.

Some UK prisons are affected by a shortage of staff, which puts both employees and prisoners at risk, Justice secretary Chris Grayling has recently admitted during the BBC Radio 4’s Today programme.

Close to a third of small and medium businesses are not properly upholding employee rights legislation by not offering flexible working arrangements to staff, a recent media news report into this matter was able to reveal.

The UK closed-circuit television market grew in value by 3.1% in 2012 and 5.8% in 2013 and is likely to continue its positive trend throughout 2014, a new market research report was able to reveal.

The Office for National Statistics data for April to June 2014 suggests that UK unemployment fell to 6.4 per cent, the lowest rate in six years, while wages were slightly lower than a year ago (by 0.2 percent).

Part-time vacancies soared by 44% over the past year, with the biggest rise being recorded in the manufacturing segment (+163%), figures released by employment agency Reed can suggest.

The UK government has revealed plans to modify the existing legislation in order to prevent recruiters from advertising existing positions exclusively overseas, a recent report by the CIPD was able to reveal.

Almost 65 per cent of British employers plan to recruit more employees over the next three months, data from the latest Labour Market Outlook (LMO) survey released by the CIPD

Increased demand for skilled workers as well as a lack of suitable domestic candidates is likely to turn the UK into a “talent magnet” within the European Union, a senior partner for professional services company KPMG has argued.

Employee management systems designed to collect activity data on the company’s personnel should be a priority for any company’s HR department, an expert in the human resources management field has argued.

Over 75% of British businesses believe that they’ll be severely affected by a skills crisis over the next three years, results published in a report drawn up by The Prince’s Trust in partnership with HSBC have revealed.

Small and medium-sized manufacturers across the UK reported a strong quarter of orders and output growth in the three months to July, while employment soared across the segment, figures from the CBI’s latest SME Trends Survey were able to reveal.