It means that a substitution clause may soon stop doing the work agencies have asked of it. On 14 October 2026 the Department for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade opened its consultation on...
Treat the request as the first conversation of the employment, not as a condition of the offer, and write the probation review as if it were a dismissal hearing, because from 1 January 2027 it can...
The Office for National Statistics published its October labour market figures this morning, 20 October 2026. Vacancies fell by 21,000 to 691,000 in July to September, down 37,000 on the year and the...
From today an employer can join its in-house talent acquisition team to The British Institute of Recruiters in one go. STAR Team is the team form of STAR, Specialist in Talent Acquisition and...
Yes. From 1 October 2026 the Right to Work Scheme covers people engaged under a worker's contract, individual sub-contractors and online matching services, as well as employees. The Home...
Yes, if the proposal goes ahead. The government's equal pay and pay discrimination consultation, which closes at 5pm on 27 October 2026, proposes a statutory requirement for all employers to...
From today every BIOR member has a badge that ior.org draws from their membership record each time it is shown. It carries the member's logo (the BIOR Member logo, the CERTIFIED Recruiter or...
From January 2027, on the government's timetable. On 25 September 2026 the government published its response to the consultation on the duty to inform workers of their right to join a trade...
Not before April 2027. The Fair Work Agency was launched on 7 April 2026 and today enforces the national minimum wage, the rules for employment agencies and employment businesses, and gangmaster...
The British Institute of Recruiters has opened the Split-Fee Network, a members-only board inside ior.org where a BIOR Agency Member posts a role its own agency cannot fill and other Agency Members...
The government confirmed on 22 September 2026 that a new right to bereavement leave will come into force in April 2027.
Employees who lose a spouse or partner, parent, adult child or sibling will...
The Office for National Statistics published its September labour market figures on 15 September 2026. Vacancies fell by 8,000 to 702,000 in June to August, down 36,000 on the year and 86,000 below...
The British Institute of Recruiters has launched a public directory of its members and certified members, and a verification page for every membership number.
The directory lists every recruitment...
The government has published the first minimum wage naming round since the Fair Work Agency was set up in April 2026.
Around 660 employers were named on 3 September 2026 for failing to pay staff...
The government has updated the Fair Work Agency's enforcement policy statement to spell out the breadth of what the agency will enforce.
The update, made on 26 August 2026, confirms that the...
The Office for National Statistics published its latest labour-market figures on 18 August 2026, and they point to a cooling hiring market.
The estimated number of vacancies in the UK fell to...
The Fair Work Agency has published its first delivery plan, setting out its priorities and actions for 2026 to 2027. The plan, released on 10 August, gives recruitment agencies a clear view of how...
The British Institute of Recruiters has launched State of Recruitment, a free monthly data note that reads the official ONS labour-market figures through a recruiter’s lens.
The first edition,...
The Government will launch the Fair Work Agency (FWA) on 7 April 2026, consolidating key employment enforcement bodies into a single organisation. The FWA, an executive agency of the Department for...
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