Latest Articles By Simon Collyer

Employment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill was passed by both houses of the Oireachtas and will now be presented to the President for his signature. Commencing in the first week of March 2019, the Bill seeks to address the challenges thrown up by the...

Christmas is a hard time for those on low incomes. People can feel VERY depressed. None the less:  A VERY Happy Christmas to all our followers. It has been a very exciting year for the ABC and 2019 promises much more. We are going into Christmas...

The ABC has been arguing that a recession might be on the way. Karl Marx prophesied that capitalists would drive down wages till a point that the workers could no longer afford the goods that were being produced. Capitalism would eventually destroy i...

Liberal Democrat MP Layla Moran’s campaign to scrap the 1824 Vagrancy Act has received Labour party support. Responding to the announcement, Ms Moran said: “The 1824 Vagrancy Act is a heartless, Dickensian law that is shamefully still being used thou...

Essex Euro MP Alex Mayer clapped shut a film clapperboard and she welcomes a £1,320 European LoCASE – low carbon- grant as part help towards buying lighting equipment (This last Thursday 20 December at the Knowledge Pathways International, Unit 1 Blo...

Hannah Bardell MP has called on the UK government to show some compassion this Christmas and halt cruel sanctions to social security which can leave people in desperate situations. The SNP MP tabled a number of questions in the UK Parliament to confi...

Tomorrow (Wednesday 19 December 2018) the Committee holds the first evidence session with new Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, Rt Hon Amber Rudd. Work and Pensions Committee Wednesday 19 December 2018 Meeting starts at 9.30am The UK’s w...

The ABC has predicted that the UK could be descending on a  glide path to civil war. People are angry and not just about Brexit, but also about welfare reforms and Universal Credit. The LibDems just think this is scaremongering   Liber...

Colchester MP Will Quince has made the point to the new DWP minister Amber Rudd - the need for changes to payroll software to show the date of payment of wages, not merely the date the PAYE slip was created. The HMRC-  RTI (Real Time Information...

There are now more than 1 million more job openings than job seekers in America. With 7.1 million openings, job openings have exceeded job seekers for eight straight months according to the JOLTS report the Bureau of Labor Statistics released this we...