CBI/Pertemps Labour Market Update: May 2026
Unemployment rate returns to 5% and vacancies fall to a post-pandemic low.
Since 1965, we’ve worked side by side with firms across the UK – influencing policy, shaping legislation and securing the conditions businesses like yours need to succeed. We unite business to drive real change, because pro-business legislation doesn’t happen by accident.
Unemployment rate returns to 5% and vacancies fall to a post-pandemic low.
Our report with Browne Jacobson sets out how reformed public-private partnerships can unlock long-term investment in the schools, hospitals and civic infrastructure the UK needs to grow.
CBI Chief Policy and Campaigns Officer, John Foster, unpacks what the May 2026 elections across England, Holyrood and the Senedd mean for UK business.
Representing our member priorities on trade, supply chains and economic resilience on the global stage
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