Low sick pay is making Britain sicker
Data analysis finds the majority of employees carry on working despite illness
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Young people can’t get jobs. Does Labour care?
Fixing youth unemployment isn’t impossible
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Would anyone work if they didn’t have to?
We need to get creative with how to encourage people to work
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Why I took a week off from my week off
After a few days, I realised there’s a reason we work
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The narcissistic cult of the Winter Arc
Gen Z’s obsession with self-discipline isn’t healthy
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Britain’s youth unemployment epidemic
Graduates are in an endless cycle of applying for jobs that never existed
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Inside the false economy of Rachel Reeves’ welfare cuts
As the government waters down its benefits reforms, PIP claimants reveal cuts would push them out of work – not…
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Eddie Dempsey on why Britain needs a trade union revival
The RMT general secretary is a product of the old left. Can his vision of a popular, resurgent labour movement…
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Ending the welfare trap
Labour must not only make benefits less attractive, but make work more so.
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Why Britain isn’t working
How the benefits system became a danger to the economy and a battleground for Labour.
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Dan Norris: “It’s time for a skills revolution”
Delivering the government’s five missions requires a laser focus on skills.
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Where are all the green jobs?
Net zero isn’t delivering.
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The empty philosophy of BrewDog’s James Watts
“Be a selfish bastard” counts among the entrepreneur’s maxims.
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The UK’s broken system makes losers of us all
Today’s welfare state asks for and confirms people’s incapacity to work – not their ability to do so.
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The four-day work week is the future
The evidence is clear: a four-day work week would boost productivity and happiness. So why aren’t our politicians pushing for…
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Solving the “labour question”
A Keir Starmer government should boost the economic power of working people.
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Work isn’t working: how to boost the nation’s health and happiness
Improving conditions and benefits could reduce long-term sickness and ultimately increase the UK’s productivity.
The government is launching an all-out assault on people with anxiety and depression
Rather than tackle the cause of “sick-note culture”, the Tories are simply scapegoating people with mental illnesses.
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We need universal access to occupational health
In the UK, 2.8 million people are off work due to sickness – businesses of all sizes must be supported…
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Britain’s worklessness crisis is getting worse
Rishi Sunak is attempting to tackle “sick-note culture” – but the Tories are exacerbating the problem.
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