Welfare News Service (UK) - Newswire

Tom Clark: From housing to jobs and benefits, the under-35s have little to hope for in the aftermath of this economic slump

Move by UK's biggest building society provides boost to campaign to persuade employers to pay staff fair wage

The zero-hours contract - alongside the payday loan and the bad bank - has gained a kind of totemic significance in the public imagination.

The prime minister has described the issue of immigrants coming to the UK to fill vacancies as a problem of "five or ten years ago".

Polly Toynbee: The better the employment figures, the more eager the government is to tighten the screws on those still unemployed

80% of workers on zero-hours contracts earn less than the median hourly rate of pay for all employees, says TUC

Two deep pits are to close next year with the loss of 1,300 jobs after the government revealed it is loaning UK Coal £10m for "managed closure".

Britain’s major towns and cities would be handed £4 billion a year to boost jobs and growth by a Labour Government, Ed Miliband will announce on Tuesday.

Neither the original fear that migrants were taking British jobs nor the reversal of this trend were supported by official data

A DESPERATE jobseeker who has been turned down for 3,000 posts in Britain is off to China for work.

Labour cabinet travelling north to unveil review into contracts, claiming independence will make it difficult to regulate them

A promise to ban zero-hours contracts which exploit workers will be included in the Labour manifesto for next year’s general election, Ed Miliband will announce on Friday.

I HAVE spoken a lot recently about the cabal of big business and big politics that has become too dominant in the way our country is run.

The surge in Britons finding jobs is actually down to a big boost in self-employment, with pensioners, part-time workers and "odd-jobbers" becoming the fastest growing groups of the UK's new freelance workforce. According to analysis from the Trades Union Congress (TUC), self-employment has accounted for 44% of all employment growth since May 2010. 

The Government backs a controlled shutdown of UK Coal's two deep pits to prevent its "immediate insolvency".

The vast majority of workers on zero-hours contracts receive less than the average national rate of pay, according to a new analysis of wage levels.

Creating conditions for businesses to grow, resulting in jobs, and welfare reform to get people into work.