Friday, 7 March 2014

A ‘guaranteed day’s pay’ to ease the fundamental injustice of zero-hours contracts

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There’s less than a week left to respond to the coalition government’s consultation on zero-hours employment contracts (the closing date i...
Tuesday, 25 February 2014

Britain's increasingly stressed-out workforce

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The Office for National Statistics (ONS) has just released its latest figures for sickness absence in the UK labour market, covering the pe...
Thursday, 20 February 2014

UK productivity gap with G7 economies even wider than first thought

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The Office for National Statistics this morning published its latest estimate of how labour productivity in the UK compares with the other ...
Wednesday, 19 February 2014

Ups and downs in the jobs figures but the underlying trend in unemployment still firmly downward amid tentative signs of upward movement in pay

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The Office for National Statistics (ONS) has released the latest set of UK labour market data, mostly covering the three months to December...
Tuesday, 4 February 2014

Will 2014 be the year of the pay rise?

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This morning I took part in an event at The Resolution Foundation looking at the UK pay outlook for 2014 and beyond. My fellow panellists w...
Wednesday, 22 January 2014

Soaring UK employment and big fall in unemployment still barely registers in pay figures so no need for early interest rate rise

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The Office for National Statistics (ONS) has released the latest set of UK labour market data, mostly covering the three months to November...
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Thursday, 9 January 2014

Racial inequality a key factor in structural youth unemployment for some ethnic minorities

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The Department of Work and Pensions was uncharacteristically sotto voce yesterday when it released figures on the labour market status of B...