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Karin Pape, is the European Regional Coordinator of the International Domestic Workers’ Federation (IDWF), and Regional Advisor for Europe of Women in Informal Employment Globalising and Organising (WIEGO). WIEGO is a global network focused on...

The EESC (European & Economic Social Committee) conference in Rome pointed to many shortcomings in Italy's live-in care sector, which is on the rise in the country shown to be the second "oldest" in the world according to recent figures Despite t...

As US workers approach retirement, they might wonder how their retirement savings will be paid out. Among private industry workers in defined contribution plans in 2017, most participated in savings and thrift plans (73 percent). Other common plan ty...

No.10 is reportedly close to announcing that it will lift a cap on visas for skilled migrants after it was revealed to be preventing thousands of doctors from entering the UK to work. The Prime Minister has been under pressure from cabinet...

The Colchester Assembly have booked 55-seater bus to the NHS 70th Birthday Rally in London on Saturday June 30th, picking in Clacton & Colchester. The Colchester Assembly say they expect this will be a massive demonstration of supp...

This article was written by the journalists April Roach & Niamh McIntyr, Romford Recorder. It will be a familiar situation to many people around the country. +++ ‘It’s like a torment’: Hundreds of Havering disabled people had th...

The ESRC-funded Welfare conditionality: sanctions, support and behaviour change project is pleased to announce a major international conference on welfare conditionality. The conference will be of interest to a broad range of academics, pol...

The British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies, British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, British Psychoanalytic Council, British Psychological Society and UK Council for Psychotherapy between them represent more t...

The American economy went into overdrive last month, the Labor Department reported Friday, extending the longest streak of job growth on record and echoing other recent signs of strength. Total nonfarm payroll employment increased by 223,000 in May,...

Countless reports and research point to growing intergenerational inequality in Australia: housing prices are unaffordable for most young Australian; higher education is costing more and more; young people are experiencing discrimination and exploita...