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Last year GMB won a landmark employment tribunal against Uber, which ruled that its drivers were not self-employed contractors but employed workers - and were therefore entitled to the national minimum wage, sickness and holiday pay. Uber's license t...

The Australian Fabians are putting together a collection of new progressive policy ideas to be launched at the NSW Labor conference on July 29, 2017. The Fabians want to get people talking and thinking big about the challenges facing their commu...

 There has been a revision down to 0.2% for GDP growth in the first quarter of 2017, which the Office for National Statistics says reflects household spending slowing down. The TUC are saying: “The next government will inherit an economy t...

Don’t Join the Army’ is a project of Veterans for Peace UK. The organization says that it is a response to the Army’s consistently misleading and exploitative recruitment campaigns aimed at young people. Army recruitment has fr...

A group of UK household names teamed up yesterday to espouse the benefits of hiring older workers. Boots, Barclays, the Co-op, and Aviva have all signed up to a pledge to increase the number of over-50s in their respective workforces by 12% over the...

Emmanuel Macron on Tuesday got down to the nitty-gritty of running the country, with a marathon discussion on the reform on which he has staked his reputation: the labor market. The new French president had a meeting scheduled every hour&nb...

Bryce Goodall, the autistic man from Fife whose intervention in the BBC General Election leaders’ debate was one of the most powerful moments of the night, has told The National how he contemplated suicide after having his benefits st...

Theresa May starts to look vulnerable: For the second time in as many months, the prime minister made a u-turn, this time over a policy that would require comfortably off pensioners to contribute from their assets to the cost of their care in old age...

A Salisbury grandmother suffered a heart attack during a job centre assessment but was deemed fit to carry on. Salena Hannah, 50, started suffering chest pains during an appointment and asked if she could be excused to see a doctor. But she claims he...

Inflation has hit 2.7% as the rising cost of raw materials for businesses continues to filter down through supply chains. The figure is up from 2.3% in March and is now at its highest point since since September 2013. A spokesperson for the Office fo...