DWP abandons legal battle over ‘perverse’ Universal Credit fault
This is a surprise – the Department for Work and Pensions has actually seen the light and done the right …
Category Archives: Employment
How many people does the government owe because of Universal Credit payday prejudice?
Let’s answer the question in the headline straight away: it seems 85,000 people may be able to claim compensation because …
More than 600,000 jobs lost – so 45 fat cats can increase their wealth by £25 billion?
Covid-19 has had remarkably divergent effects on people, depending on their status in our society. At the bottom, more than …
Sunak wants employers to pay a quarter of furloughed staff wages from August
Funny how this story comes out when everybody’s talking about Dominic Cummings instead, isn’t it? This Writer has said before …
Coronavirus: Tories endanger disabled people with homicidal choice between a rock and a hard place
What charmers these Tories are! They’re telling UK-based people with disabilities they have a choice between starving while waiting for …
Confusion reigns over who exactly can go back to work and who we can see
Boris Johnson’s speech on Sunday (May 10) becomes more opaque by the hour. He said all workers who cannot work …
Cabinet Office inquiry expected to clear Patel of bullying. But what will the courts do?
Read this – it’s not a good thing: Priti Patel is expected to be cleared this week of bullying senior civil …
Chancellor’s ‘jam tomorrow’ package for the self-employed is worse than useless now
How kind of Rishi Sunak to announce aid for self-employed workers who are likely to lose money because of the …
By discriminating against the self-employed, Sunak is risking coronavirus spread
Tory Chancellor Rishi Sunak is under pressure to stop discriminating against people who are self-employed – because he putting them …
Coronavirus: How can Scottish hotel say it’s following government advice by sacking staff?
Is this the tip of a vicious coronavirus iceberg? Owners of the Coylumbridge hotel, near Aviemore in Scotland, have sacked 12 …