Like many industries in the UK, the impact of an ageing workforce and post-Brexit losses, driver vacancies continue to challenge this £32.2 billion industry. Almost 30% of the current personnel are aged 56 or over and retention is becoming a key factor in an industry which is placing increasing pressure on drivers to achieve tough … Continued
According to the CBI’s latest Industrial Trends Survey, firms are citing the shortage of skilled labour in the manufacturing sector as the worse its been since the 1970s, and this continues to put a strain on manufacturing output. This combined with increasing costs of materials has impacted business confidence and output. So what are the … Continued
An announcement this month from the CECA states labour shortages are at an all-time record high. These announcements followed CECA’s Work Trends survey from the third quarter of 2022 and highlight that even though there has been successive growth in workloads, 3 out of 4 companies are complaining of shortages in skilled labour along with … Continued
This equates to an additional 53,000 workers every year to enable the UK to meet the housing targets set in place by this government. If the UK achieves these targets the construction industry will grow to 2.78 million workers by 2026. These figures are produced by the CITB as part of their most recent industry … Continued
Essex continues to drive the number of applications being approved to achieve its housing targets, with 5328 houses and apartments along with student accommodation and care villages. The Mayor of London was given a grant of £4.82m to build 116,000 affordable dwellings in London in 2016 and these were due to be built by 2021, … Continued
The government set a target of 300,000 new homes to be built annually by the mid-2020s but in 2019/20 only 242,700 net dwellings were built, and this dropped in 2020/21 to only 216,460. Included in these numbers are the government’s targets for social housing (discounted rent and affordable ownership) which were set at 180,000 during … Continued
Figures released by the Office for National Statistics have shown an increase of 4% in the average construction workers’ pay packet, reaching an average weekly earning in September of £722, with construction vacancies continuing to rise. Unfortunately, construction worker salaries are not managing to keep up with inflation but they are still the third-highest of … Continued
On Friday 4th November 2022 a man was handed out a 26-week jail sentence which was suspended for 18 months and the employers who employed him on 70 separate occasions are now being investigated. The person was identified as using a cloned licence in a Manchester health setting when random checks were carried out during … Continued
A recent article in one of the FM magazines highlights the potential shortfall of 62,000 officers in the next 12 months as the industry battles to keep up with growing demand. There are a number of pressures which have created this current lack of recruits and the great resignation is having a major impact on … Continued
The most recent statistics released by the government on the Commercial Victimization Survey estimates that 38% of wholesale and retail business in England and Wales have been the victim of crime between April 2020 and March 2021. The most common type of crime was theft (27%) and burglary (10%). Unfortunately, theft by customers was the … Continued