News
Public backs more support for young people as youth joblessness reaches 16%
Opinium and British Retail Consortium found that younger unemployed people were the group most in need additional Government support.
British Retail Consortium
News
Retail losses risk ‘jobless generation’, warns BRC
Helen Dickinson said: “As the Government consults on the Employment Rights Act, the priority must be clear: protect workers and protect job creation."
Business
Retail sales rise 3.1% in June as warm weather and sport boost demand
UK retail sales grew 3.1% in June, with both food and non-food sales up year on year, driven by summer weather and major sporting events.
Lead Story
UK retail boards near gender parity, says BRC
While women made up less than a third (32%) of boardrooms five years ago, that number has now almost reached parity, at 47% in this year’s report.
News
160,000 part-time jobs could be lost over next three years, warns British Retail Consortium
Part-time roles are particularly susceptible to the upcoming changes in the employer NICs thresholds
Business
Retail job losses loom as sector faces rising costs and weak growth in 2025
Despite a modest rise in retail sales during the 2024 festive period, rising costs and weak growth are expected to drive further job cuts across the sector.
Featured
Retail sheds 225,000 jobs in five years
The Office for National Statistics (ONS) has reported that there were 2.81 million jobs in the retail sector in September 2024, marking a traditionally low point before the holiday season boosts employment.
Health & Wellbeing
British Retail Consortium calls on PCC candidates to get tough on retail crime
The BRC’s latest crime survey shows levels of violence and abuse facing people working in retail skyrocketed across the country to over 1,300 incidents per day in 2022/23, from 870 the year before.