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Employment

The gig economy and your finances: How to make it work for you
Gig economy

The gig economy and your finances: How to make it work for you

With more people working freelance or gig jobs, here's how you can manage irregular income, budget and plan for the future while working outside traditional employment
Working from home vital for disabled people to keep a job, DWP told ahead of benefit cuts
Working from home

Working from home vital for disabled people to keep a job, DWP told ahead of benefit cuts

DWP reveals new plans to get sick and disabled people into work ahead of benefit cuts
DWP minister Liz Kendall
Department for Work and Pensions

DWP reveals new plans to get sick and disabled people into work ahead of benefit cuts

UK has some of the 'weakest' workers' rights in the Western world. Can Labour fix this?
Workers' rights

UK has some of the 'weakest' workers' rights in the Western world. Can Labour fix this?

I was made redundant while on maternity leave – it has scarred me for life
Employment

I was made redundant while on maternity leave – it has scarred me for life

Advertising helps fund Big Issue’s mission to end poverty
How the miners' strike changed the way Britain works, 40 years on
Miners' strike

How the miners' strike changed the way Britain works, 40 years on

Are disability benefit claimants 'ready to work'? The truth behind DWP's claims ahead of welfare reforms
A meeting of the child poverty taskforce. From left to right: Mayor of the North East Kim McGuinness, work and pensions secretary Liz Kendall and education secretary Bridget Phillippson.
Disability benefits

Are disability benefit claimants 'ready to work'? The truth behind DWP's claims ahead of welfare reforms

Number of young people not in work or education highest for a decade – but it's not their fault
The green job centre plus sign hangs above a wet and dirty concrete architrave
NEET

Number of young people not in work or education highest for a decade – but it's not their fault

Foreign workers at 'increasing risk of exploitation' as UK sees sharp fall in work visas
Prime minister Keir Starmer dressed in hi-vis jacket and hard hat
Migration

Foreign workers at 'increasing risk of exploitation' as UK sees sharp fall in work visas

Government urged to stop using 'personality tests' in its hiring process: 'Big barrier for autistic people'
a woman in business attire sits with a
Employment

Government urged to stop using 'personality tests' in its hiring process: 'Big barrier for autistic people'

Bring in a four-day work week to beat Reform in next election, Labour told: 'There's no catch here'
Four-day working week

Bring in a four-day work week to beat Reform in next election, Labour told: 'There's no catch here'

Home Office visa delays leave thousands of migrants in limbo – and job vacancies unfilled
Employment

Home Office visa delays leave thousands of migrants in limbo – and job vacancies unfilled

Can Skills England plug the UK's skills gap to give Labour the growth it craves?
Work

Can Skills England plug the UK's skills gap to give Labour the growth it craves?

'It's devastating': UK's biggest companies locking autistic people out of jobs with personality tests
Workplace inclusion

'It's devastating': UK's biggest companies locking autistic people out of jobs with personality tests

Big UK businesses are slashing thousands of jobs. Just how much trouble are we in?
Chancellor Rachel Reeves ahead of the autumn budget 2024
Jobs

Big UK businesses are slashing thousands of jobs. Just how much trouble are we in?

How Big Issue Recruit builds on a three-decade legacy of removing barriers to work
Head of Big Issue Recruit Operations Stuart Greenway, Big Issue Recruit candidate Kane and Big Issue Recruit job coach Shak Dean stand outside Big Issue Group's head office in Finsbury Park, London.
Big Issue Recruit

How Big Issue Recruit builds on a three-decade legacy of removing barriers to work

Labour warned 'one size doesn't fit all' over plan to 'help' neurodivergent people on benefits into work
Person shown working at a laptop
Employment

Labour warned 'one size doesn't fit all' over plan to 'help' neurodivergent people on benefits into work

'We're overdue an update:' A four-day working week will be 'the norm' in five years, most Brits say
four day working week
Four-day working week

'We're overdue an update:' A four-day working week will be 'the norm' in five years, most Brits say

Working from home isn't 'proper work', ex-Asda boss says. Is flexible work really destroying Britain?
Work from home

Working from home isn't 'proper work', ex-Asda boss says. Is flexible work really destroying Britain?

London workers earn in 8 months what Burnley workers do in a year. It's hurting UK growth
An aerial shot of central London
Wages

London workers earn in 8 months what Burnley workers do in a year. It's hurting UK growth

Becoming a Community Payback supervisor changed my life – and helped countless others
Community Payback supervisor Mick Howe
Rehabilitation

Becoming a Community Payback supervisor changed my life – and helped countless others

Advertising helps fund Big Issue’s mission to end poverty
The dark side of Christmas: Inside the factories where children are forced to make gifts and toys
Christmas gifts made in factories
Workers' rights

The dark side of Christmas: Inside the factories where children are forced to make gifts and toys

Royal Mail takeover by Czech billionaire approved. What does it mean for workers and the six-day service?
Royal mail

Royal Mail takeover by Czech billionaire approved. What does it mean for workers and the six-day service?

Community meals and workers' rights: What happens if councils seize Deliveroo and Uber Eats' 'ghost kitchens'?
Deliveroo driver waits outside a cafe
Ghost Kitchens

Community meals and workers' rights: What happens if councils seize Deliveroo and Uber Eats' 'ghost kitchens'?

People with disabilities and ill health more likely to leave work, study finds – the DWP must fix this
dwp
Work

People with disabilities and ill health more likely to leave work, study finds – the DWP must fix this

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