Latest Articles By Simon Collyer

Britons have been given their first pay rise since the beginning of last year with average wages climbing. A year-long squeeze on real incomes, constraining economic growth, has come to an end.   Figures released tomorrow are expected to show av...

“My Constituent Was Sanctioned For A Heart Attack” DWP Boss Ignoring Real Life Impact of Tory Policies. DWP boss Esther McVey struggled through a Holyrood committee meeting as the real life impact of Tory welfare policies was laid bare. S...

Are you based in Wales and looking for work? Workways+ is backed by £17.3m of EU funds through the Welsh Government. Support targets participants residing outside of Communities First Areas who are economically inactive, long-term unemployed or...

Social Security Committee April 16, 2018 09:00 1. Secretary of State for Work and Pensions: The Committee will take evidence from-  Rt Hon Esther McVey MP, Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, UK Government;Mary Pattison, Director, Ageing S...

The Scottish Federation of Housing Associations wants to delay the rollout of Universal Credit, while the Government deals with abolishing the bedroom tax. They say while the bedroom tax remains, there’s a greater chance of tenants not receivin...

On Friday we had news the ABC was awarded a BIG Lottery ‘Awards for All’ grant, for our Work TV project (£10,000) and in the afternoon, we were approved for a further matching grant of (£4,000) from LoCASE (a low carbon initia...

Technology—in particular automation and artificial intelligence—is disrupting the way Americans work. But with targeted initiatives and investments in education, retraining, mobility, and support systems, the United States can help its ci...

EU Member States are facing employment shortages in a number of key sectors: Europe could need up to 756,000 skilled ICT workers and around a million healthcare professionals by 2020. A revised EU Blue Card aims to attract the world's best and bright...

The SNP has said that the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) rhetoric to make work pay “reeks of hypocrisy,” after figures revealed that the department has taken on over 27,000 people for unpaid work placements since 2011 – with...

Following the announcement that the 2 Sisters Group will close its chicken production plant in Cambuslang in August 2018, local MSP Clare Haughey has said her “overriding priority now as the constituency MSP is to ensure those wh...