Welfare News Service (UK) - Newswire

The number of disabled people taking advantage of support to get or keep a job is up by over 10% on last year.

Numbers of disabled people helped and numbers continuing to benefit from Access to Work from April 2013 to December 2013.

Sue Marsh: Rachel Reeves and Kate Green are moving Labour away from defining the problem as one of 'shirkers' who can work but don't

Hundreds of thousands of health workers to be consulted over industrial action

Unemployment decreased by 77,000 between September 2013 and November 2013 to 2.33 million, with the unemployment rate now at 6.9 per cent, today’s labour m

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".

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".

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.

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".

Turn2us - a charity that helps all people in need access benefits and grants - has just launched its annual Benefits Awareness Month campaign.

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.

For the first time since the recession, unemployment has dropped below 7 per cent and has seen the biggest annual jump in a generation.

The number of people out of work in the UK has fallen by 77,000 to a five-year low of 2.24m in the three months to February, official figures indicate.

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

UNISON Cymru/Wales has called on the Prime Minister and health minister Jeremy Hunt to apologise to the NHS workforce in Wales, after a Nuffield Trust report showed that there is no evidence for the claim that health services in Wales are failing to keep pace with any other part of the 

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

Yvette Cooper admits Labour did make mistakes on immigration as she announces tough new measures to tackle cheap migrant workers.

Labour has said it will make the serious exploitation of migrant workers a criminal offence if it gains power.