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Tweet by Frank Field MP: This is so serious that I will ask the Speaker tomorrow for an Urgent Question so that the Secretary of State returns to the House to withdraw what the NAO believes to be totally inaccurate comments, as DWP officials well kno...

Campaign began in 2016 after a Derbyshire sales manager lost her job following cancer diagnosis North Lanarkshire Council is backing a campaign which helps employees who become terminally ill at work. The local authority is the latest employer to si...

Nearly 240 employers who underpaid the National Living and Minimum Wage named today £1.44m in back pay has been identified for 22,400 workers, with the employers fined additional £1.97m Employers underpaid workers by taking deductions fro...

McVey must come back to the commons over Universal Credit.                 The SNP’s Social Justice spokesperson Neil Gray MP has said Esther McVey must return to the Commons immediately to provide a...

The employment recovery is well-established in the European Union, and the trends are positive across the main indicators. More people than ever are participating in the labour market – either employed or looking for work – with the EU ac...

Over 80 domestic violence and abuse incidents every day in Northern Ireland – working together we can help stop it Last year nearly 30,000 domestic motivated incidents took place in Northern Ireland and tragically around five people each year a...

The social security benefits available to people who are in work but struggling on low incomes is to be the focus of an inquiry by Scottish Social Security Committee. MSPs want to understand if the social security systems are doing enough to help peo...

24 per cent of all people in Wales were living in relative income poverty between 2014-15 and 2016-17 (i.e. the financial year ending March 2015 and the financial year ending March 2017). This is up from 23 per cent between 2013-14 and 2015-16, the r...

There have been some significant changes announced by the government concerning Universal Credit. In a statement on 7/6/2018, Esther McVey, says that the government intends to make the following changes- timetable for managed migration - th...

The powerful trade union Unite’s annual policy conference kicks off today, with delegates due to hold debates on keeping Britain in the single market and on holding a second EU referendum. Anti-Brexit campaigners are wisely targeting Jeremy Cor...