self-employment Articles

Philip Hammond's assault on the self-employed provides Labour with a golden opportunity to win over Tory voters – that Jeremy Corbyn is squandering, writes Calum Sherwood When Jeremy Corbyn was elected leader of the Labour Party for the first time, he promised a ‘new...

Brexit should bring urgency to finding new models of employment relations, writes Nita Clarke In 2016, as parliament debates the right to debate the terms of our withdrawal from the European Union, many British workers wait anxiously for reassurance that their...

In 2016, despite the record high employment figures, the United Kingdom workforce faces an uncertain future. I am not simply referring to Brexit – although a cause of concern for many, it is only the most visible of a series of factors which threaten to throw into...

Self-employment is without doubt now a central part of the labour market in the United Kingdom. 4.8 million people work for themselves, almost 15 per cent of the working population – this is a big shift that everyone is still getting used to. But how should the Labour...