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It turns out that many offices and boardrooms of elected leaders have been filmed by an extension of Google’s Street View service.  It gives you an insight into the circumstances of those who make decisions concerning the low paid have to...

RTE, the Irish broadcaster, has a fascinating radio documentary about questionable firms and strange justice. Bogdan Chain is a Polish worker recruited by an Irish company Atlanco (registered in Cyprus to reduce its social and tax costs) to work in s...

Essex County Council is committed to ensuring Essex residents enjoy good health and wellbeing. The Council are aware people don’t like to be told what to do and don’t want to feel that they’re being nagged by those in authority. Thi...

“Where is my son and what have you done with him? Today, he’s a social animal with too many friends to count and never at home. What a transformation. I cannot thank you enough. It has truly been the making of him. He now has a social cir...

Todays ONS figures show for August to October 2015, 73.9% of people aged from 16 to 64 were in work, up 0.4 percentage points from May to July 2015 and up 1.0 from a year earlier. Britain’s jobs market continues to show signs of tightening but...

Benefit Sanctions - Dr Eilidh Whiteford kicks off an emotive debate in Westminster Hall, Parlliament on this topic. Dr. Eilidh Whiteford (born 24 April 1969) is the Scottish National Party (SNP) Member of Parliament (MP) for Banff and Buchan. Dr. Whi...

The U.K.-EU negotiations have had an impact on timing of the package (which was due this month) but European Employment Commissioner Marianne Thyssen last night told the European Parliament, “We are finalizing the technical work on th...

Donald Trump may be more Donald Chump to some, but this infographic (a trendy name for a graph we always thought) shows how the middle class have shrunk in the USA. Trumps power base is very much this lower demographic. 'The Donald' appeals not so mu...

Dublin Bay North Labour TD Sean Kenny has welcomed the announcement that as a result of arbitration, school secretaries and caretakers in grant funded schools will see an increase to their pay packets. Notifications have been sent out by the Departme...

Committee launches inquiry on automatic enrolment The Work and Pensions Committee has today launched an inquiry into pensions automatic enrolment. Under the Pensions Act 2008, every employer in the UK must put certain staff, unless they choose to opt...