Employment Rate
This coverage analyses the UK employment rate and its impact on the retail industry, with reporting tailored to retailers, brand managers, business executives, and professionals overseeing workforce planning and operations. It examines employment and unemployment trends, labour market dynamics, and economic inactivity, offering insight into how these factors shape consumer behaviour, staffing strategies, and overall retail performance.
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Mar- 2020 -6 MarchBusiness Bites
Flybe’s pensions in doubt; Poorest 20% no better off than before, 1m Virgin customers on unsecured database
Flybe’s pension pot for 1,350 current and former workers is at risk, as the fallout from one of the first casualties of the coronavirus business threat manifests in full. Flybe of course was already embattled before the new Covid-19 virus came along, and was the subject of a controversial bailout…
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Sep- 2019 -5 SeptemberHigh Street
Retail salaries rise in August but job vacancies fall ‘dramatically’, report reveals
Retail businesses increased pay for staff by 1.4% in August, according to new data from independent job board CV-Library. Despite this positive trend, CV-Library said the findings, which analyse job market data from August 2019 with the same period in 2018, revealed that the amount of retail jobs on offer…
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May- 2019 -31 MayEconomy
Consumer confidence increases in May
Consumer confidence rose by 3 overall to -10 for the month of May, according to GFK’s Consumer Confidence Index. Four measures increased and one stayed the same. Forecasts for the general economic situation over the next 12 months have increased five points to -29; but is still eight points lower…
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