Latest Articles By Simon Collyer

Dr Tony Cox Scottish welfare activist was today sentenced to 150 hours community service at Dundee Sheriff Court after being convicted of threatening behaviour towards employees of MAXIMUS Inc who carry out DWP Work Capability Assessments on disabled...

You think we have problems in Europe. With unemployment at more than 90%, many Zimbabweans have become vendors and rely on cross-border trading to make a living. Officials in the country have tried to stop the trend by passing laws pre...

Owen Smith has some interesting ideas about Zero Hour Contracts, please see the video below.  As of December 2014, the Office for National Statistics estimated that there were around 700,000 workers on zero-hours contracts, with 1.8m s...

Last week, the Equality and Human Rights Commission published their response to a House of Lords Select Committee report on the Equality Act 2010 and its effect on the lives of disabled people by calling for a new national focus on disability rights...

Plaid Cymru Shadow Cabinet Member for Finance and Economy Adam Price has called out a Labour leadership candidate’s “appalling hypocrisy” over claims that he would outlaw zero hour contracts. Adam Price said that Labour has consiste...

Data from the British Bankers’ Association shows that house purchase approvals in June were 11 percent lower than the same month of 2015. Gross mortgage borrowing in the first half of 2016 was £79.9 billion compared with £63.6 billi...

The Erasmus scheme that has helped so many young people gain work and educational experience may be under threat once rge UK leaves the Europeann Union. According to the Erasmus websisit: It is not clear at this early stage what the impact of the rec...

Fuel direct is the common name for third party deductions from benefits for fuel debt. In 1996, there were 141,000 gas customers and 47,000 electricity customers on fuel direct. In 2006 this had fallen to 27,200 gas customers and 21,589 electricity c...

Work and Pensions Committee & Business, Innovation and Skill Committee MPs catalogue litany of failures culminating in 'at any cost' disposal of company and pension deficit to wholly unsuitable "chancer". In their report on BHS, the Work and Pens...

Theresa May’s decision to scrap bursaries for nurses and midwives as one of her first acts as Prime Minister is a “depressing insight” into her priorities in government, an SNP MSP has said today – and stands in stark contrast...