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According to HR Briefing 63% of managers still haven’t heard of the apprenticeship levy and 93% aren’t making full use of it, according to new research. A large majority of key business figures in the UK are either confused by or sceptica...

Minister for Welsh Language and Lifelong Learning, Eluned Morgan this week visited the Noddfa Centre in Caernarfon to see how the Welsh Government’s Communities for Work and Parents,  Childcare and Employment (PaCE) schemes are helping peo...

Guy Opperman, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Pensions and Financial Inclusion, is to make a statement in the House of Commons on the state pension age at around 3pm today. The statement is a response to an Opposition Day debate. This wil...

Social Democrats co-leader Róisín Shortall will bring the party's Parental Leave (Amendment) Bill 2017 to the Dáil on Thursday 8th February 2018. The Bill extends unpaid parental leave for working parents from 18 weeks to 26 week...

New research from the Office for National Statistics suggests a shift in employment from highly productive industries to less productive ones has led to a downturn in productivity.   An assessment across all sectors of the UK economy reveals som...

Work and Pensions Committee Wednesday 7 February 2018 Meeting started at 9.30am AGENDA Subject: Support for carers Witnesses: Nikki Kimber, Carer , Olga Budimir, Carer , Liz Abrahams, Carer , Katie O’Shaughnessy, Carer , and Bethan Pound,...

The management team of construction firm Carillion faced a grilling from MPs yesterday as the Work and Pensions Committee probed the reasons for its collapse. Former chairman Philip Green said he takes the blame for the failure, admitting his respons...

The Government have waved through another year of frozen benefits for millions of working people. Labour, SNP and Liberal Democrat MPs have pointed out the detrimental impact this will have on people. The state pension will rise by 3% next...

Lyn Wright welcomes the re-assessment of 1.6m PIP claimants after judge rules DWP ignored applicants' mental health problems. Lyn Wright, 49 from Colwyn Bay, spoke after the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) recently announced it would be reasse...

The government today publishes its response to Matt Taylor’s review of the gig economy, promising a raft of new rights for casual workers. The BBC has a write-up here. The response has been mixed, with center-ground groups like the Resolution F...