Pot look
Problems with pensions exhibit the same concerns that drive our inability to tackle the environmental crisis and other great societal issues. We need to recognise uncomfortable truths and meaningfully support …
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International Labour Organization Warns of Heat-Related Job Losses
GENEVA (ILO News) – An increase in heat stress resulting from global warming is projected to lead to global productivity losses equivalent to 80 million full-time jobs in the year …
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Insecure Work – Are we at a Tipping Point?
The UK is facing a quality of work crisis. The growing use of zero-hours contracts has been widely covered, but our new findings from analysis commissioned by the Living Wage …
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Striking McDonald’s workers: You have to ‘build your strength in numbers’
“We know that McDonald’s is the head of the snake.” McDonald’s workers went on strike on Thursday in 13 cities for a $15 hourly pay and union rights for all …
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Money Worries Cost UK Economy Up To £51bn A Year
UK workers’ poor financial well-being is having a significant impact on productivity Savings as a proportion of income is the lowest it has been for nearly 60 years1 40% (13 …
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Bots and bell ringing
Richard Baldwin is a leading international expert and author on globalisation. In his most recent book, he writes about the coming age of “globotics”, an even more intense globalisation plus …
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Apprenticeships system favours those who already hold skills
This morning the Department for Education (DfE) published figures outlining the number and type of apprenticeships that were started during the first month of 2019. January isn’t a big month …
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A hole in the heart
Grazia Ietto-Gillies has spent her career as an economist seeking to fill a crucial gap: the exclusion of transnational corporations into economic thinking. And this gap is not a small …
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All aboard the Millennial Express – longer commutes for less pay
The ONS serve to uplift and depress analysts like me in equal measure. And today they served up the latter, with new figures showing that the number of people commuting for more …
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Good work if you can get it
Interview – Matthew Taylor Chief Executive of the Royal Society of the Arts, Matthew Taylor, last year led a review for the Government to consider how employment practices needed to change …
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