The irresistible rise of the ‘mini-job’ – economic recovery unlikely to reverse trend toward shorter working hours in UK

Jobs Outlook 2014: A ‘year of slim pickings’ for most UK workers, despite the unemployment rate falling to 7% and the end of the real pay squeeze, with greater wage inequality a threat to workplace harmony

Recent pattern of UK employment growth having only limited impact on rate at which jobless find work – much higher level of recruitment needed to cut youth unemployment

Paramedics, psychologists and undertakers in top 10 fastest growing UK occupations – but sharp contraction for hospital porters, traffic wardens and debt collectors

UK jobs five years after start of recession – women do better than men, older women do best of all

UK jobs mark

A further 340,000 public sector jobs to be cut by 2015 General Election – underlying pace of job downsizing to quicken, if OBR projection proves correct

The ‘truly extraordinary’ 2012 jobs boom: ‘cheap labour’ fuels fastest rate of UK employment growth since 2000 and one of best years for jobs in four decades

3.5 million people made redundant since start of recession but redundancy rate generally lower than a decade ago

Sharp increase in people employed on government job schemes helps cut unemployment, especially for young ‘core jobless’ people

At least 2020 before UK employment rate returns to pre-2008 recession peak, with 2.8 million extra private sector jobs needed

Predictions for the 2013 job market