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Fresh drop in jobless rate shows strength of British economy

Fresh drop in jobless rate shows strength of British economy | Welfare News Service (UK) - Newswire | Scoop.it
The Office of National Statistics said unemployment fell by 161,000 to 2.16 million in the three months to April, and the jobless rate dropped to 6.6 per cent.
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Trades Union Congress - Pay packets have nosedived since government declared cost of living crisis over

Trades Union Congress - Pay packets have nosedived since government declared cost of living crisis over | Welfare News Service (UK) - Newswire | Scoop.it
Commenting on the latest labour market figures, published today (Wednesday) by the Office for National Statistics, TUC General Secretary Frances O’Grady said:
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Dutch-style collective pensions will be option for UK savers, say ministers

Dutch-style collective pensions will be option for UK savers, say ministers | Welfare News Service (UK) - Newswire | Scoop.it
Bill introducing CDC pension funds with tax breaks addresses poor-value annuity schemes and is backed by Labour
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Call to increase Scots minimum wage

Call to increase Scots minimum wage | Welfare News Service (UK) - Newswire | Scoop.it

An expert group on welfare set up by the Scottish government has recommended a substantial rise in the minimum wage.

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Trades Union Congress - Government is failing to tackle the growing casualisation of work

Trades Union Congress - Government is failing to tackle the growing casualisation of work | Welfare News Service (UK) - Newswire | Scoop.it
Commenting on proposals in the Small Business, Enterprise and Employment Bill announced today (Wednesday) in the Queen’s Speech, TUC General Secretary Frances O’Grady said:
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Pensions reform at heart of Coalition's final year

Pensions reform at heart of Coalition's final year | Welfare News Service (UK) - Newswire | Scoop.it

TODAY'S Queen's Speech will be "unashamedly pro-work, pro-business and pro-aspiration", David Cameron and Nick Clegg insist, saying the pensions revolution signalled by the Chancellor in this year's Budget will be at the heart of the Coalition's final year of Government.

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Minister hails 80pc fall in employment tribunals - Telegraph

Minister hails 80pc fall in employment tribunals - Telegraph | Welfare News Service (UK) - Newswire | Scoop.it
Bogus employment tribunal claims for discrimination and harassment are “squeezing the life” out of businesses, minister warns
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British jobseeker forced to go to China after he was turned down 3,000 times

British jobseeker forced to go to China after he was turned down 3,000 times | Welfare News Service (UK) - Newswire | Scoop.it
A DESPERATE jobseeker who has been turned down for 3,000 posts in Britain is off to China for work.
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New Statesman | Why has Labour watered down its plans to tackle zero-hour contracts?

New Statesman | Why has Labour watered down its plans to tackle zero-hour contracts? | Welfare News Service (UK) - Newswire | Scoop.it

The party previously suggested that workers would be offered a fixed-hours contract after 12 weeks. But that period has been extended to a year. 

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Why Miliband's zero hours contract pledge is spot on | Left Foot Forward

Why Miliband's zero hours contract pledge is spot on | Left Foot Forward | Welfare News Service (UK) - Newswire | Scoop.it
Ed Miliband won't be able to ban zero hours contracts, but he is tackling the worst way they are abused, writes James Bloodworth.
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Nationwide announces it will sign up to Living Wage campaign

Nationwide announces it will sign up to Living Wage campaign | Welfare News Service (UK) - Newswire | Scoop.it
Move by UK's biggest building society provides boost to campaign to persuade employers to pay staff fair wage
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Labour takes on zero-hours contracts

Labour takes on zero-hours contracts | Welfare News Service (UK) - Newswire | Scoop.it
The zero-hours contract - alongside the payday loan and the bad bank - has gained a kind of totemic significance in the public imagination.
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Benefit cuts creating new generation of entrepreneurs, Bank of England suggests - Telegraph

Benefit cuts creating new generation of entrepreneurs, Bank of England suggests - Telegraph | Welfare News Service (UK) - Newswire | Scoop.it
Iain Duncan Smith hails Britain's 'entrepreneurial spirit' after Bank of England suggests welfare reforms are encouraging people to become self-employed
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Employment up 345,000 compared with the previous quarter - ONS

Employment up 345,000 compared with the previous quarter - ONS | Welfare News Service (UK) - Newswire | Scoop.it

Comparing February to April 2014 with November 2013 to January 2014, there was a large increase in employment and a large fall in unemployment. There was a further fall in the number of economically inactive people aged from 16 to 64.

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Labour market status by ethnic group: June 2014 - Publications - GOV.UK

Labour market status by ethnic group: June 2014 - Publications - GOV.UK | Welfare News Service (UK) - Newswire | Scoop.it
Statistics on labour market status by ethnic group, with data for the full 2013 calendar year.
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WIN: Thousands of low-paid workers receive Living Wage after union campaign - UnionNews

WIN: Thousands of low-paid workers receive Living Wage after union campaign - UnionNews | Welfare News Service (UK) - Newswire | Scoop.it
UNISON members accept pay offer to end long-running dispute
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Thousands of workers not told of pensions revolution

Thousands of workers not told of pensions revolution | Welfare News Service (UK) - Newswire | Scoop.it
The Money Advice Service has been sending out booklets that don’t reflect one of the biggest changes to pension rules in a century.
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Record proportion of people in employment are home workers - ONS

Record proportion of people in employment are home workers - ONS | Welfare News Service (UK) - Newswire | Scoop.it
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Britain's workforce in 2022: From a nation of pen-pushers to an army of carers

Britain's workforce in 2022: From a nation of pen-pushers to an army of carers | Welfare News Service (UK) - Newswire | Scoop.it
Once we were a nation of factory workers and farm hands, then a country of office pen-pushers. Britain’s workforce has transformed many times to meet the needs of a changing society and economy.
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Chronic shortage of ambulance staff leaves NHS bosses making emergency call for Australian paramedics

Chronic shortage of ambulance staff leaves NHS bosses making emergency call for Australian paramedics | Welfare News Service (UK) - Newswire | Scoop.it
The London Ambulance Service has been given permission by the UK Border Agency to go Down Under to help fill 250 vacancies
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Most former Remploy workers 'still out of jobs'

Most former Remploy workers 'still out of jobs' | Welfare News Service (UK) - Newswire | Scoop.it
THE majority of disabled workers who lost their jobs following the government's heartless closure of Britain's Remploy factories are still out of work, new figures revealed yesterday.
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Miliband Pledges To Tackle Zero-Hour 'Abuses'

Miliband Pledges To Tackle Zero-Hour 'Abuses' | Welfare News Service (UK) - Newswire | Scoop.it
The Labour leader promises to introduce safeguards for workers on the contracts which he argues have "spread like an epidemic".
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Zero hours like 'Victorian conditions'

Zero hours like 'Victorian conditions' | Welfare News Service (UK) - Newswire | Scoop.it

Labour leader Ed Miliband has promised to introduce new rights for workers on zero hour contracts, if his party wins the next election.

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Zero-hours contracts not controlled if Scotland votes yes – Ed Miliband

Zero-hours contracts not controlled if Scotland votes yes – Ed Miliband | Welfare News Service (UK) - Newswire | Scoop.it
Labour cabinet travelling north to unveil review into contracts, claiming independence will make it difficult to regulate them
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Exclusive: Labour takes on bad bosses in bid to save the Union with Scotland and end ‘epidemic’ of zero-hours contracts

Exclusive: Labour takes on bad bosses in bid to save the Union with Scotland and end ‘epidemic’ of zero-hours contracts | Welfare News Service (UK) - Newswire | Scoop.it
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.
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