Office clearout leaves Britain with more jobs than workers to fill them
So many people have left work or changed industry since the pandemic that for the first time demand for staff…
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“The price of getting to your job is astronomical”: Britain’s cost-of-working crisis
Employees are being hit by inflation, childcare and commuting costs — especially those who moved away to work from home…
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The fire-and-rehire policy used by P&O jeopardises millions of British jobs
Policies that enforce insecure work have become more widespread since the pandemic.
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P&O proves Brexit has failed on its own terms
800 crew members have been replaced by “cheap agency workers from eastern Europe” overnight.
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Cutting Covid support is a betrayal of the working class
Low-income workers have been given a bleak choice by the government: attend work while sick or risk falling into financial…
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The grey resignation: why the disappearance of older workers is an economic risk
There are now 208,000 fewer over-50s in the UK’s labour market than there were before the pandemic, and that’s a…
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Why a four-day week makes sense for businesses and the economy
A major new trial could bring benefits for companies as well as workers.
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From the NS archive: Our backs to the wall
16 April 1921: Industrial action has some of the characteristics of warfare.
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