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Published in: Home: NewsHome Office paying asylum seekers £1 an hour to clean detention centresExclusive: Detainees worked a million hours on £1 wages in past five years, sparking claims of government exploitation
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Published in: Home: OpinionHow industrial action could make the UK more democraticOPINION: The RMT, postal workers and nurses are preparing to strike. It's good news for anyone interested in social mobility
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Published in: oDR: NewsUK MPs demand ‘just reconstruction’ in Ukraine amid fears for workers’ rightsMoney for Ukraine’s recovery must ‘not disappear into the hands of oligarchs’, Nadia Whittome told openDemocracy
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Published in: Home: NewsNumber of Universal Credit claimants relying on hardship payments soarsEXCLUSIVE: The number of people needing emergency loans is 80% higher than in 2019 due to soaring benefit sanctions
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Published in: Home: NewsSunak’s jobs scheme left young people in debt and failed to vet employersExclusive: Under-25s were treated like ‘free bodies’ under the government’s £1.9bn Kickstart project
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Published in: ourEconomy: OpinionOur ancestors worked less and had better lives. What are we doing wrong?In an age of both untold prosperity and existential crisis, it’s time to rethink work
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Published in: Dark Money Investigations: NewsOnly six UK employers prosecuted for paying below minimum wage in six yearsExclusive: ‘Pathetic’ prosecution rate criticised, amid new findings government gave many firms furlough cash...
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Published in: ourEconomy: OpinionThe time for a four-day week has arrivedA new experiment from Iceland confirms what many of us have long suspected: reducing working hours improves...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKEnd the counter-productive and costly 'work ban' on people seeking asylumThe UK ignores international conventions by preventing people seeking asylum from finding work. Relaxing the...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKCare work is a 24 hour a day job, Mr Balls, and should be paid as suchEd Ball's commitment to 25 hours a week free childcare is to be welcomed. But it fails to get to the core of a...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKNot working enough? The morality of work in contemporary politicsAs Iain Duncan Smith blames the low paid for their poverty, is the left falling into the trap of embracing the ethic...
