Wednesday, 14 May 2014

Job growth fuelled by continued surge in self-employed takes the steam out of pay growth for UK employees

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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 January to ...
Thursday, 1 May 2014

Adult care on the cheap is real slap in the face for Britain’s elderly

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Last night’s BBC Panorama programme is the latest to expose abuse in some of Britain’s residential care homes for the elderly.  Sadly, desp...
Wednesday, 16 April 2014

All eyes on the UK pay figures but it’s the jobs figures that are truly remarkable

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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 December 20...
Monday, 31 March 2014

A full employment target is no longer enough

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The political economy of full employment has been my principal professional interest – some might say obsession – for the past 30 years. Fo...
Wednesday, 19 March 2014

Combination of rising job vacancies and falling unemployment at last breathing life into 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 November 20...
Monday, 17 March 2014

The UK’s jobs rich recovery – how many cheers for the Chancellor?

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On Wednesday the UK Chancellor of the Exchequer, George Osborne, will present his fifth Budget to Parliament. Informed media speculation ah...
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...