Young people today face an unprecedented era of falling real wages, declining opportunities, and stark inequalities in income, wealth and education. The dream of just doing better, let alone climbing the income ladder, is dying, according to a new study.
Job security, workplace mental health, and how well-supported workers feel by their employer, should be monitored annually by the government, a report led by the RSA and the Carnegie UK Trust recommends.
Single parent employment rates are at a record high, but a third of children with a working single parent live in poverty, and the situation is set to worsen.
While the global economy has kept up modest growth, the total number of unemployed people is likely to remain high in 2018 and it will be harder to find a decent job, the United Nations labour agency reports.
Black, Asian and minority ethnic workers are over a third more likely than white workers to be stuck in temporary or zero-hours work, according to a new TUC report.
The BBC has reported that the Taylor Review on modern employment practices will recommend that workers on zero hours contracts will only have a 'right to request' guaranteed hours.
In its response to the Government’s consultation on the Industrial Strategy Green Paper, which closed on 17 April 2017, the Joseph Rowntree Foundation says the plan provides an opportunity to transform left behind places, whose prospects were highlighted by the Brexit vote.
The Trades Union Congress has commented on figures published yesterday by the Office for National Statistics, which show that the number of people on zero-hours contracts has increased by 13 per cent over the past year.
The growth of insecure employment – working without guaranteed hours or baseline employment rights – is costing the Exchequer an estimated £4 billion a year, according to a new Trades Union Congress report published yesterday.