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There is a mixture of roles available, some self-employed and some owner-driverEvri said it had 10,000 roles in total(Image: Evri)Parcel delivery company Evri Group has today announced plans to recruit more than 10,000 people across the UK, as it prepares for its busiest period of the year and "responds to growing parcel demand". The delivery company, which said it now handlesdmore than one billion parcels a year, is embarking on "a major recruitment drive to support its expanding delivery network, as it targets further growth in the years ahead".It said the majority of the roles were within Evri's courier network, where more than 7,000 self-employed positions are available, with opportunities enabling people to deliver parcels in their local communities, following flexible working patterns and the ability to build delivery rounds close to home.A further 2,000 owner-driver positions are also available within Evri Premium – A Network of DHL, the group's premium delivery network.In what it said was a first for...

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Derek Halpenny at MUFG notes that UK July CPI came in broadly as expected, with the headline rate rising to 2.9% mainly on higher utility bills, while services inflation eased. Combined with labour data showing modest wage growth and weak employment demand, he argues the Bank of England is likely to stay divided, with future moves hinging on Middle East-driven energy prices.UK inflation, labour and BoE risks"The July CPI data has just been released in the UK and was widely as expected, with the annual rate accelerating from 2.6% to 2.9% largely due to the rise of utility bills reflecting the 13% increase in the OFGEM price cap due to rising energy prices.""The good news was that services prices fell as expected from 3.6% to 3.4% which paints a favourable picture of domestically generated inflation. The headline increase of 2.9% is a little higher than the 2.8% expected from the BoE but that’s close enough to view this data as...

People wishing to gain and then use any remaining loyalty card points at Beefeaters have only days to do so as the initial deadline for the offer is next Monday, August 24. A spokesperson said: "All points must be collected (or receipt details added) by Monday 24 August 2026 and then converted into your points-based vouchers and used by Monday 31 August 2026." READ MORE: Over 3,500 jobs lost as UK restaurant chains list properties With a loyalty card, customers could collect 5 points for every £1 spent and once 500 points have been earned, they would be able to claim either a £5 voucher, a free bottle of wine or 2 free starters or desserts. This comes as the chain is set to close next month following an announcement earlier this year by owner Whitbread. The Applecart Beefeater at the Oxford South Milton Interchange (Image: Christie Owen & Davies Ltd) The company said...

Haley Schlicht From Silicon Valley executives promising to automate white-collar work to headlines claiming AI is foreclosing the graduate entry market, the strained ‘low fire, low hire’ environment has increasingly been ascribed to technological transformation. UK vacancies nearly halved since their 2022 peak – a contraction so sustained it has reshaped the British hiring market for the better part of three years. This post examines how evidence of AI-driven transformation at the hiring margin is proving considerably more tenuous than the headlines suggest. Brynjolfsson et al (2025) at Stanford University champion vacancy compression in AI-exposed occupations as a canary, the labour market’s early warning system and a leading indicator of technological displacement in adolescence. Lambert and Schindler (2026) counter with a discomfiting reframe. Rather than AI, the hiring market is shifting due to the structural upheaval that remote working visited upon firms’ internal labour dynamics, breaking the lower rungs of the career ladder. The UK makes for an exigent test case. The vacancy...

UK inflation rose to 2.9% in July as the impact of the Iran war on energy prices triggered a renewed cost of living squeeze for British households.Underscoring the challenge for Andy Burnham’s government to give “breathing space” to hard-pressed consumers, the Office for National Statistics said inflation rose from 2.6% in June.It comes after British consumers faced the sharpest summer increase in energy charges in four years in July as the US-Israel war on Iran sent shock waves through global energy markets.City economists had forecast an increase in the consumer prices index measure of inflation to 2.9%.Against a volatile backdrop in the Middle East, the Bank of England is considering whether to raise interest rates from as early as next month in response to fears over stubbornly high inflation becoming entrenched in the economy.However, separate figures on Tuesday showing a slowdown in the jobs market – including a fall in job vacancies and a slump in private sector pay growth...

Consumer confidence took a step back in August as job security worsened to its weakest level for more than three years, according to new figures. The closely watched S&P Global UK consumer sentiment index slipped to 42.9 for the month, compared with a previous four-month high of 43.4 in July. Any reading below 50 indicates that sentiment remains broadly negative. Maryam Baluch, Economist at S&P Global Market Intelligence, said: "The recent better growth seen in the economy is failing to feed through to households. "The latest survey shows labour market concerns emerging as a growing drag on consumer confidence." The latest survey showed that job security data dropped to a reading...

The Work Foundation at Lancaster University responded to the labour market figures for August 2026 released by the Office for National Statistics. Ben Harrison, Director of the Work Foundation at Lancaster University commented:“Today’s figures indicate the UK remains trapped in a deepening jobs drought. Vacancies have fallen to the lowest level outside of the Covid-19 pandemic since 2014, and young people are facing some of the toughest conditions for finding work in more than a decade.“Unemployment remains unchanged at 4.9%, but the headline figure masks a particularly difficult jobs market for young people. Youth unemployment among 16-24 year olds now...

Ongoing weakness in private-sector hiring and wage growth suggests the bar is still relatively high for a rate hike in 2026, barring a severe and prolonged spike in energy prices. We expect the Bank of England to remain on hold this year and resume rate cuts from spring 2027.If the UK economy really is picking up speed – as last week’s GDP data tentatively hints – then there’s little sign of it in the jobs market.Admittedly, just like the growth figures, it really depends on where you look. Government is still actively hiring, a trend we've seen throughout this year. Payroll growth is running at 1.1% on a three-month annualised basis, though we have our doubts over how long this can continue given the more austere plans for public spending coming down the track.In sharp contrast, consumer-facing industries (hospitality and retail) have been consistently shedding jobs, and if anything, the pace of decline is getting worse. That follows ongoing pressure since...