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Home Office paying asylum seekers £1 an hour to clean detention centres

Exclusive: Detainees worked a million hours on £1 wages in past five years, sparking claims of government exploitation

By Jack Barton

/ 23 Feb 2023

Home Office paying asylum seekers £1 an hour to clean detention centres

How industrial action could make the UK more democratic

OPINION: The RMT, postal workers and nurses are preparing to strike. It's good news for anyone interested in social mobility

By David Renton

/ 12 Dec 2022

How industrial action could make the UK more democratic

UK MPs demand ‘just reconstruction’ in Ukraine amid fears for workers’ rights

Money for Ukraine’s recovery must ‘not disappear into the hands of oligarchs’, Nadia Whittome told openDemocracy

By Thomas Rowley

/ 24 Oct 2022

UK MPs demand ‘just reconstruction’ in Ukraine amid fears for workers’ rights

Number of Universal Credit claimants relying on hardship payments soars

EXCLUSIVE: The number of people needing emergency loans is 80% higher than in 2019 due to soaring benefit sanctions

By Chaminda Jayanetti

/ 26 Sep 2022

Number of Universal Credit claimants relying on hardship payments soars

Sunak’s jobs scheme left young people in debt and failed to vet employers

Exclusive: Under-25s were treated like ‘free bodies’ under the government’s £1.9bn Kickstart project

By Martin Williams and Camille Corcoran

/ 24 Jun 2022

Sunak’s jobs scheme left young people in debt and failed to vet employers

Chegou a hora de implementar a semana de trabalho de quatro dias

Experimento islandês confirma velhas suspeitas: horas de trabalho reduzidas melhoram nosso bem-estar e produtividade

By Jack Kellam

/ 17 Jan 2022

Nossos ancestrais trabalhavam menos e viviam melhor. Onde estamos errando?

Em tempos de prosperidade incalculável e crise existencial, é hora de repensar o trabalho

By Ståle Wig

/ 12 Jan 2022

Um mar de pessoas atravessa a London Bridge durante a hora do rush

Our ancestors worked less and had better lives. What are we doing wrong?

In an age of both untold prosperity and existential crisis, it’s time to rethink work

By Ståle Wig

/ 5 Jan 2022

Our ancestors worked less and had better lives. What are we doing wrong?

UK sponsors deregulation of labour rights in Ukraine

Experts warn the proposed labour reforms, which the British Foreign Office has consulted on, could reduce Ukrainians’ rights at work

By Thomas Rowley

/ 10 Nov 2021

UK sponsors deregulation of labour rights in Ukraine

Only six UK employers prosecuted for paying below minimum wage in six years

Exclusive: ‘Pathetic’ prosecution rate criticised, amid new findings government gave many firms furlough cash despite ‘naming and shaming’ them over minimum wage

By Adam Bychawski, Peter Geoghegan and Jenna Corderoy

/ 28 Jul 2021

Only six UK employers prosecuted for paying below minimum wage in six years

The time for a four-day week has arrived

A new experiment from Iceland confirms what many of us have long suspected: reducing working hours improves wellbeing and productivity

By Jack Kellam

/ 8 Jul 2021

The time for a four-day week has arrived

End the counter-productive and costly 'work ban' on people seeking asylum

The UK ignores international conventions by preventing people seeking asylum from finding work. Relaxing the exceptionally stringent rules would boost the economy and could prove surprisingly popular.

By Koldo Casla

/ 8 Oct 2019

End the counter-productive and costly 'work ban' on people seeking asylum