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UK jobs, employment and wages

  • Criminal solicitors ‘highly unlikely’ to make ‘reasonable’ living, Law Society warns

    December 1, 2022

    The UK government’s refusal to hike criminal solicitor’s legal aid fees by 15 per cent means it is “highly unlikely” those lawyers coming into the job will be able to make a “reasonable” income from their work, the Law Society has warned. Law Society president Lubna Shuja said justice secretary Dominic Raab’s refusal to increase [...]

  • Bird & Bird hikes new lawyers’ salaries for second time this year

    December 1, 2022

    London law firm Bird & Bird has given its newly qualified (NQ) lawyers a pay hike for the second time this year. The law firm has given its NQ lawyers a five per cent pay rise in upping their annual pay to £92,400 per year, a Bird & Bird spokesperson told City A.M. The pay [...]

  • BDO partners see payouts drop following £70m hiring spree

    November 30, 2022

    BDO’s managing partner today said the firm will continue investing in long-term growth after partners saw their payouts drop 15 per cent as the result of a £70m spending spree. Speaking to City A.M. Paul Eagland also refused to rule out a firm-wide split as he signaled BDO may follow EY in separating its audit [...]

  • Workers’ real pay erodes at historic pace despite huge wage rises

    November 15, 2022

    Workers’ pay is still being eroded at a historic pace by rampant inflation despite employers hiking wages by one of the greatest amounts since records began, official figures revealed today. When taking off the Office for National Statistics’ (ONS) preferred measure of inflation, pay excluding bonuses dropped 2.7 per cent over the last three months, [...]

  • City pay war continues as top US law firm hikes London lawyers salaries to £170,000

    November 14, 2022

    New York City law firm Simpson Thacher has hiked salaries for its newly qualified (NQ) lawyers to heights of £170,000 a year in a sign the City pay war is showing no signs of slowing down.   The white shoe law firm has given NQ lawyers in its London offices a £12,000 a year pay [...]

  • Businesses scrambling to hire staff in heated job market despite recession picking up

    November 5, 2022

    Businesses are still desperate for staff, with increases in adverts for occupations including childminders, school secretaries and dental practitioners, new research suggests. The Recruitment and Employment Confederation (REC) said there were 154,000 new job adverts in the week of 17-23 October, slightly lower than a month earlier. The number of adverts has remained stable at [...]

  • Pricey embarrassment: UK employees miss out on £1.3bn in expenses to not look ‘petty’

    November 4, 2022

    British workers forgo claiming £1.3bn in expenses at work for fear of looking “petty” according to new research. 80 per cent miss out on unclaimed expenses amounting to around £245 a year per employee, according to Pleo. Despite the cost of living crisis biting hard for many Brits, business spending solution group Pleo found workers [...]

  • Trevelyan commits to deliver reforms post P&O scandal

    October 13, 2022

    Transport secretary Anne-Marie Trevelyan has committed to deliver reforms that will prevent scandals such as P&O from happening again. “I look forward to continuing to extend the work that my predecessor set running to build that relationship, to improve the workplace environment for our seafarers and to ensure that terrible decisions taken by P&O cannot [...]

  • Redundancies dip by a third but gloomy outlook may mean rise is ‘inevitable’

    October 11, 2022

    The number of redundancies in the UK has defied doomsayer’ predictions and dropped a third in the last quarter, but a gloomy outlook means a rise is expected in the near future. Employment law firm GQIlitter reported there has been a 32 per cent drop in workers being let go, falling fro 53,000 to 36,000. [...]

  • UK unemployment falls to 50 year-low amid jobs market exodus

    October 11, 2022

    A sharp rise in the number of Brits dropping out of the jobs market altogether has artificially pushed the UK unemployment rate down to its lowest level since the mid 1970s, official figures published today reveal. The volume of people in the UK not looking for work climbed around 330,000 over the last three months, [...]

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