Latest Articles By Simon Collyer

US created 38,000 jobs in May vs. 162,000 expected.  Investors’ reactions to Friday’s anaemic employment numbers in the U.S. — the worst labor report since September 2010. The timing of the release meant that Asian and Eur...

Ruth Davidson is under pressure to prove that her party is within the mainstream of Scottish politics by abandoning her defence of the UK Government’s welfare cuts – and to put the interests of people in Scotland ahead of the interests of...

  A ban on wearing headscarves in the workplace may be admissible if it is based on a general company rule prohibiting political, philosophical and religious symbols from being worn visibly, an advisor to the EU's highest court has said. In an o...

In November 2015 the OECD projected growth of 2.39% for UK GDP in 2016 and 2.26% for 2017 – it has now revised these down to just 1.7% for 2016 and 1.96% for 2017.   The OECD Global Economic Outlook released today. The globa...

Benefits system ‘a cruel bureaucracy’, says Ken Loach after Cannes win In a Guardian article, the director Ken Loach has said he does not want David Cameron to watch his latest film, which deals with unemployment, poverty and th...

The Europeant jobless rate was stable at 10.2 percent in April, the same as March. But beware of averages because the discrepancies are huge. In Germany, the unemployment rate is 4.2 percent; in Greece, 24.2 percent. At the beginning of 2000, above 2...

In January of this year, Senator Ivana Bacik proposed the Competition (Amendment) Bill 2016 on behalf of the Labour Party Senators, as a private members’ bill which was allowed pass through to Second Stage by then Minister Richard Bruton. Sena...

With the roll-out of the full Universal Credit service finally starting Wednesday 25th May – it is being rolled out to five jobcentres including Bath and Newcastle Cathedral Square, with more to follow in the coming months and years – the...

Labour Dublin West Deputy Joan Burton has welcomed the CSO’s latest Quarterly National Household Survey figures which show that in April unemployment dropped to 7.9%. But she warned that there can be no room for complacency in particular, as re...

A set of economic indicators released this week show clearly why the Welsh Government needs to adopt a new economic strategy, Plaid Cymru’s Shadow Finance and Economy Minister Adam Price has said. Figures released by the Office of National Stat...