Topic

Employment

To boost the number of jobs and create a flexible labour market, the government is modernising employment law while protecting employee rights. To increase the number of people in employment, we need to support them into work through the benefits system and job search support.

Latest

  1. Covent Gardens Tenants Association Limited: annual returns

    • published 4 March 2015
    • Corporate report

  2. Framework generic guidance: provider guidance

    • updated 4 March 2015
    • Guidance

  3. Work Programme Performance Management Regime provider guidance (CPA18)

    • published 4 March 2015
    • Statutory guidance
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Policies 4

  1. Helping employers make safer recruiting decisions

    How the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) provides criminal records checking and barring functions to help employers make safer recruitment decisions.

  2. Making the labour market more flexible, efficient and fair

    How the government is changing employment laws to encourage companies to hire staff while protecting employee rights.

  3. Simplifying the welfare system and making sure work pays

    Making the welfare system fairer, more affordable and better able to reduce poverty, worklessness and welfare dependency.

  4. Helping people to find and stay in work

    How the government is getting Britain working and helping people break the cycle of benefit dependency.

Announcements

  1. Employment Agency Standards Inspectorate carries out targeted inspections in Sheffield

    • 4 March 2015
    • Press release

  2. Bridging the Social Divide Report

    • 28 February 2015
    • Press release

  3. The EU in a Digital Age

    • 26 February 2015
    • News article

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Consultations

  1. Universal Credit: government proposal to take account of past earnings in repeat claims

    • 26 February 2015
    • Consultation outcome

  2. Local welfare provision in 2015 to 2016

    • 3 February 2015
    • Consultation outcome

  3. Universal Credit data sharing between DWP and local support providers

    • 26 January 2015
    • Consultation outcome

See all consultations

Publications

  1. Covent Gardens Tenants Association Limited: annual returns

    • 4 March 2015
    • Corporate report

  2. Framework generic guidance: provider guidance

    • 4 March 2015
    • Guidance

  3. Work Programme Performance Management Regime provider guidance (CPA18)

    • 4 March 2015
    • Statutory guidance

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Statistics

  1. Work Capability Assessment support group outcomes and disability benefit history of ESA claimants

    • 27 February 2015
    • Statistics

  2. Labour Market Statistics Quarterly Supplement - October - December 2014

    • 27 February 2015
    • Statistics - national statistics

  3. Jobs Growth Wales: February 2015

    • 27 February 2015
    • Statistics

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Detailed guides

  1. European Works Council Directive

    The European Work Council Directive establishes a European legal procedure for the establishment of European Works Councils (EWCs). Read more

  2. Civil Service secondments and loans: how to apply

    How a civil servant can apply for interchanges: a secondment in an external organisation or a placement in another government office (loan). Read more

  3. Disclosure and Barring Service: criminal record checks and referrals

    Which services are offered by DBS, including fees and guidance on applications, and how the referrals process works. Read more

  4. Apply for changes to the bargaining unit after recognition

    How to ask the Central Arbitration Committee (CAC) to consider changes to a declaration of recognition. Read more

  5. Get help from the CAC after a voluntary agreement

    How trade unions and employers can get more help from the Central Arbitration Committee (CAC) after a voluntary agreement has been reached. Read more