A survey by online jobs portal Adzuna has found that UK vacancies fell from 745,448 in November to 716,791 last month, a 15% reduction compared with a year earlier, and the weakest full year since 2020. “Competition for roles intensified and hiring slowed across many of the UK’s largest sectors as the usual year-end uplift…

Michael Tam, chief brand officer at leading Chinese humanoid robot maker UBTech, has told the Financial Times that its latest machines are at most half as efficient as human workers.

Morrisons has told staff it cannot offer significant pay rises this year, citing higher employer taxes, a 6.7% increase in the national living wage, and competitive pressures, despite investing over £100m in staff pay last year. The supermarket is in a pay dispute with Usdaw, which represents 45,000 employees, after refusing to increase wages above…

Eightfold, an artificial intelligence ?hiring ?platform used by Microsoft, PayPal and many ?other Fortune 500 companies, is being sued for allegedly scoring job candidates without their knowledge. The lawsuit filed in California was brought by job seekers Erin Kistler and Sruti Bhaumik, who claim Eightfold compiles detailed talent profiles, including personality descriptions and “fit scores”…

Female barristers constituted 23% of advocates presenting cases at the Supreme Court in 2025, up from 21% in 2024 but down on 2009, when it was created, according to Financial Times analysis.

More than 200,000 jobs in European banking are at risk as lenders adopt artificial intelligence and reduce branch networks, according to a Morgan Stanley report. The analysis predicts a 10% job cut by 2030, primarily affecting central services, back-office, and compliance roles. With 2.12m employees in the sector, this equates to approximately 212,000 positions. Morgan…