another boe headache as labour market tightness likely to continue labour market tightness in the uk is unlikely to abate soon providing yet another headache for the bank of england to contend with ahead of its meeting this week the jobs confidence index from recruitment firm robert half showed high confidence for workers about their job prospects  combined with a dissatisfaction over pay increases that continue to lag behind inflation this suggests that selfassured workers might try their luck and change jobs to seek better pay bidding up wages more and then forcing companies to raise prices to offset that all of which could make sticky inflation even stickier