Month: May 2023

A REC survey shows the confidence employers have in the work skills of people with criminal records, but fears of them reoffending are holding back hiring – despite the UK facing a shortage of labour crisis.    REC interviewed 167 employers to ask about the barriers to their organisation hiring people with prior criminal convictions. […]

Employer confidence in hiring returns to positive territory for the first time since the beginning of 2022, according to new Recruitment & Employment Confederation (REC) data.   In February-April 2023, the net balance of employers’ confidence in making hiring and investment decisions was +2 – restoring to positive territory the first time since January-March 2022. […]