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Britain’s biggest pensioner organisation, the National Pensioners Convention has issued the following response to the Work and Pensions Committee’s report and recommendations into Intergenerational Fairness: Dot Gibson, NPC general secret...

Youth Employment UK have been overwhelmed by the number and quality of this year's applicants for the Youth Friendly Employer Awards. The organizing team want to thank all of the organisations who took the time to enter. The Award cerimony is on the...

Germany's unemployment rate dropped (DW) to 5.8 percent in October, the lowest on record since 1991. The federal labor office reported shortages of skilled workers and 691,000 job vacancies in the country.

The BREXIT High Court Ruling was correct and even Nigel Farage agreed. However, there are a lot of other issues that are being rather overlooked? Arguing the 'will of the people must be respected' rather overlooks the fact that neither Wales or Scotl...

The Jobcentre Plus phoneline has been malfunctioning. Claimants using the system dialling in on 0845 604 3719 numbers, which are still being advertised on Google against individual JCP office addresses - claimants are being abruptly cut off afte...

The Uber Case has attracted a lot of attention. In the ‘Gig Economy' many workers are not sure what their rights and obligations are in law. This insightful article from leading employment law expert  Simon Quantrill of Quantrills Employmen...

Jeremy Corbyn  has been vigorously engaging the government over sanctions at PM’s Question Time. The argument that benefits sanctions and Work Capability Assessments are fair to taxpayers is complete nonsense. The latter assessments c...

Thinking of working abroad?  Job hiring in the UAE remained generally weak, with vacancies posted online registering a significant decline in September compared to a year earlier. Jobseekers in the UAE have been facing difficulty finding relevan...

Tiverton Jobcentre are on the move folks. Don't get caught out going to the old location.   

Katharine Round’s documentary The Divide is a short, sharp, shock of a film, based on Richard G Wilkinson and Kate Pickett’s book The Spirit Level. We have already fetured the Spirit Level and its research.  The Divide tells the...