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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?

‘Another essential service owned from abroad. Shareholders don’t experience degradation of 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
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Work

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

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Last Christmas I was in prison. This year I’m working in a London fine-dining restaurant
Christmas

Last Christmas I was in prison. This year I’m working in a London fine-dining restaurant

Get Britain Working: What are Labour’s plans for the DWP, benefits and employment support?
Department for Work and Pensions

Get Britain Working: What are Labour’s plans for the DWP, benefits and employment support?

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No, unions are not ‘holding the country to ransom’
Trade Unions

No, unions are not ‘holding the country to ransom’

I’m a union organiser in Coventry. Here’s how Amazon’s ‘union busting’ works
Stuart Richards

I’m a union organiser in Coventry. Here’s how Amazon’s ‘union busting’ works

DWP Jobcentre security guards ‘suffer’ and turn to food banks as wages fail to cover basics
dwp jobcentre security guards on the picket line
Department for Work and Pensions

DWP Jobcentre security guards ‘suffer’ and turn to food banks as wages fail to cover basics

‘It’s David vs Goliath’: Inside Amazon workers’ historic battle for trade union recognition
A GMB union protest
Trade unions

‘It’s David vs Goliath’: Inside Amazon workers’ historic battle for trade union recognition

Careers advice

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How Labour’s new Skills England can save the construction industry and fix the housing crisis
Housing

How Labour’s new Skills England can save the construction industry and fix the housing crisis

I was a drunk and homeless at 19. Volunteering helped me get my life back
Volunteering

I was a drunk and homeless at 19. Volunteering helped me get my life back

I was on benefits and struggling to support my family. Here’s how I turned my life around
an illustration of a woman checking her Credit Score
Byron O’Connor

I was on benefits and struggling to support my family. Here’s how I turned my life around

I always loved translating for my family. Big Issue Recruit helped me land my ‘dream job’
Big Issue Recruit

I always loved translating for my family. Big Issue Recruit helped me land my ‘dream job’

Employment rights

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Disabled people losing jobs and ‘falling out of work’ due to months-long waits for DWP support
disabled person working
Disability rights

Disabled people losing jobs and ‘falling out of work’ due to months-long waits for DWP support

Pushing mentally ill people from their hospital beds and into offices will only make things worse
Dr Claire Ashley

Pushing mentally ill people from their hospital beds and into offices will only make things worse

Pay rise for thousands of workers as Real Living Wage rises to £12.60 an hour – but is it enough?
real living wage

Pay rise for thousands of workers as Real Living Wage rises to £12.60 an hour – but is it enough?

Will Labour’s employment and renting reform bills finally end millennials’ insecurity?
Labour deputy leader Angela Rayner
Alice Martin

Will Labour’s employment and renting reform bills finally end millennials’ insecurity?

Big Issue Recruit

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Starmer’s intention for work and benefits should be applauded – but it must come with good jobs
Paul McNamee

Starmer’s intention for work and benefits should be applauded – but it must come with good jobs

Labour has declared ‘war on benefits’. What is it good for? Absolutely nothing
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.
Catherine Parsons

Labour has declared ‘war on benefits’. What is it good for? Absolutely nothing

Leading recruitment expert Patrick Graham announced as Non-Executive Director for Big Issue Changing Lives CIC
Patrick Graham alongside a Big Issue Recruit logo
Press Release

Leading recruitment expert Patrick Graham announced as Non-Executive Director for Big Issue Changing Lives CIC

Big Issue Community Roadshow arrives in Newcastle – with Womble in tow
Big Issue vendor Earl John Charlton and a womble on the streets of Newcastle
Big Community

Big Issue Community Roadshow arrives in Newcastle – with Womble in tow

Employment explainers

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Get Britain Working: What are Labour’s plans for the DWP, benefits and employment support?
Stock image of a Job Centre Plus sign
Department for Work and Pensions

Get Britain Working: What are Labour’s plans for the DWP, benefits and employment support?

What will the new Labour government do for benefit claimants and the welfare system?
Benefits

What will the new Labour government do for benefit claimants and the welfare system?

The national living wage, real living wage and minimum wage explained
living wage
Minimum wage

The national living wage, real living wage and minimum wage explained

Inflation is slowing, can I still ask for a pay rise?
Work advice

Inflation is slowing, can I still ask for a pay rise?

Changemakers in the world of work

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Changemakers 2022: Prison System
Changemakers 2022

Changemakers 2022: Prison System

Changemakers: Turly Humphreys’ streetwear stores help young people into work
Turly Humphreys Changemaker
Employment

Changemakers: Turly Humphreys’ streetwear stores help young people into work

Changemakers: Mursal Hedayat’s Chatterbox is transforming refugee employment
Employment

Changemakers: Mursal Hedayat’s Chatterbox is transforming refugee employment