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It was born out of my own personal frustrations of not being able to easily find the furniture I wanted for my home. I started ufurnish.com 3 years ago to solve a problem that myself and millions of others like me across the UK have in finding the perfect pieces of furniture for their home. Today ufurnish.com has grown to a team of over 20 people and lists more than 170 furniture retailers as partners. Other than Oxbridge, all other educational institutions have a percentage of 1.5% or below. In fact, across all educational experiences there are 16,000 unique educational institutions. It demonstrates senior leaders’ ingenuity to seek out the most suitable education for their needs. The Open University’s position at 13th supports this and signals the importance senior leadership put on a more flexible education system.

Concerns relate to the polarisation of societies, attacks on journalists and the free press, and the financial sustainability of local publications. On the business side, many traditional news organisations remain relentlessly focused on faster digital transformation as rising newsprint and energy costs look to make print unsustainable in some countries.

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The private sector employee component of WFJ is not publicly available, therefore it is not possible to reconcile the WFJ and BRES totals that are published. WFJ is a quarterly measure of jobs in the UK and is the preferred measure of short-term employment change by industry. The LFS is collected via an interviewer, giving opportunity to clarify answers and grouping respondents into the ILO definition of employment. Responses are therefore subjective based on whether a responder feels attached to the labour market, for example, some of those temporarily away from work that they expect to return to will consider themselves as employed, while others might not. Additionally, a respondent self-defines their employment status between employee or self-employed; the definition of self-employment is those who in their main employment work on their own account, whether or not they have employees. Some of those who are actually paid through payroll might classify themselves as self-employed as they own the business. RTI data are collected through employers’ legal obligation to provide PAYE information to HMRC; they are based on individuals receiving pay through payroll and do not fully align with international definitions of employment.

The Scottish Government has commissioned the SCOVID Mental Health Tracker Study, to enable a better understanding of the impacts of the pandemic on mental health and wellbeing in Scotland over a 12-month period . However there is little robust quantitative evidence of harms at the national level due to poor data capture on characteristics such as ethnicity and sexual orientation. Work is also underway to provide more information on those with learning disabilities. The Scottish Government has commissioned the Scottish Learning Disabilities Observatory to undertake a data exercise to establish the death rate from COVID-19 among people with learning disabilities. The results of this data exercise will be published when it has been finalised, validated and peer-reviewed. After adjusting for age, people living in the most deprived areas were 2.3 times as likely to die with COVID-19 as those in the least deprived areas . How a disproportionate share of caring responsibilities, among other gender-based barriers, can restrict women’s employment, is evident in rates of underemployment and proportions in secure employment.

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As explained earlier, engaged employees do their best work to achieve the business’s goals and they are willing to go the extra mile to contribute to the business’s success. When employees feel engaged, they care about the company and they do their best work to achieve the company’s goals. In essence, employee engagement is the emotional commitment the employee has to the organization.

The SMCR, which came into force for solo-regulated FCA firms in December 2019, requires firms to assess the fitness and propriety of their Senior Managers and Certification staff. In our latest Conversation, employment lawyer and financial services specialist, James Green, talks to Kate Redshaw about how firms should make these assessments and the key issues that might arise. Many businesses will be required to close during the lockdown and others will obviously suffer a downturn in demand. The Chancellor has announced a one-off lockdown grant worth up to £9,000 for businesses in the retail, hospitality and leisure sectors.

Key workforce equalities data headlines for school staff – 2021-2022 comparison

The Scottish Government is working closely with each of the 12 CRDs to assist them to create opportunities for women, disabled people, ethnic minority groups and people from our most deprived remote work statistics communities. It will also ensure that, where possible, all new services created (e.g. in housing, transport, leisure and redevelopment) are physically and financially accessible to all.

• Respondents included 57 editors-in-chief, 53 CEOs or managing directors, and 31 heads of digital or innovation and came from some of the world’s leading traditional media companies as well as digital-born organisations .
• A recent employment tribunal decision is particularly interesting because it concerned an employee who was dismissed when he refused to return to work because he was worried about COVID-19.
• Yet it was only when I joined forces with Michal Wisniewski with that I have had significant outside investment and the experience to create a successful team.
• Even if some of that 50% was for a relatively short period of time – and there were considerable variations linked to the use of furlough and other measures – that represents a staggering shift in the operating model for UK plc.
• It remains to be seen whether it will change its position in response to the committee’s recommendations.
• There were temporary factors that we refer to as base and compositional effects, which increased the headline growth rate in earnings above the underlying rate.

The Scottish Government provided a £350 million funding package through the COVID-19 Communities Fund, including a £50 million Wellbeing Fund to help organisations requiring additional support to work with at-risk people worst affected by the crisis. The third sector plays a key role in supporting children, young people and their families. The Children, Young People and Families Early Intervention and Adult Learning and Empowering Communities Fund provides greater stability to organisations supporting children, young people and families.

Providing necessary information through multiple data sources, changing how our surveys operate, and reviewing methodology can cause challenges when giving a comprehensive picture of the labour market. In March 2022, PwC surveyed 52,195 individuals who are in work or active in the labour market. The sample was designed to reflect a range of industries, demographic characteristics and working patterns.

Guidance for employers on the CJRS scheme has been updated to reflect the extension and the introduction of employer contributions. The cases consider whether workers who sleep-in to carry out their duties are entitled to the national minimum wage for the full duration of their night shift. The Court of Appeal held that the care workers were merely available for work during their sleep-in shift rather than actually working. The cases considered whether workers who sleep-in, and are only required to awake in the night to carry out duties if needed, are entitled to the national minimum wage for the full duration of their night shift.