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Dear Simon Collyer, You recently signed the petition "Make fair transitional state pension arrangements for 1950’s women":https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/110776 On Wednesday 24 February, the House of Commons will debate transitional st...

EVIDENCE SESSION: Pensions automatic enrolment 9.30am, Wednesday 24 February 2016, The Thatcher Room, Portcullis House The Committee is holding the second of three evidence sessions in its inquiry into Pensions automatic enrolment. Purpose of this se...

Nearly 5 million crowd workers in the UK. Joint study by the Foundation for European Progressive Studies (FEPS) and UNI Europa, carried out by University of Hertfordshire and Ipsos MORI reveals, for the first time, the true size of the UK’...

From an Italian report   An innovative approach is needed to promote and facilitate adjustments in European labor markets. In the euro area in particular, given the absence of the exchange rate most of the effort of the adjustment is borne by em...

Boris Johnson, the mayor of London and most influential politician on the In-Out referendum question after the prime minister according to a recent poll, joined the Out campaign yesterday: “After a great deal of heartache … I w...

The SNP has today renewed its call for a halt to all benefit sanctions until a full independent review is carried out, as new research shows that there is a “striking” link between benefit sanctions and mental health.   New research...

Mayors from major European cities are meeting Commissioners Thyssen and Bieńkowska on 22 February to discuss employment. The mayors will emphasise the vital role that cities play in addressing Europe's employment crisis, and how engaging cities in pa...

For £267,946 a year, you get to be a deputy governor of the Bank of England and lead Britain’s efforts to regulate its banks. In return, you have to ensure that the PRA [The Deputy Governor for Prudential Regulation] “maintains and...

The Office of National Statistics has been under pressure to improve the statistics that the public get. We are very pleased therefore to reproduce this article from Full Fact. Anyone should be able to easily access, understand and use the most basic...

OECD calls for less austerity in bleak forecast: Open up the spending spigot. The message from the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development to world leaders could not have been clearer on Thursday. The OECD slashed growth forecasts for a...