work and welfare Articles

In recent weeks there’s been an increasing awareness of the rise of zero-hour working contracts – where staff have no guaranteed working hours and often go from week to week unable to predict their hours or income. When, in July, I was selected as Labour’s PPC for...

I was once fretting about being mired in a political argument, when a very experienced politician said to me, ‘Ally, never be afraid of having the row. It’s only when you’re having a row, you know you really might be getting somewhere.’ Those words came back to me as...

I was pleased to see in Ed Miliband’s speech last week the announcement that Labour would devolve the spending on back-to-work schemes to local councils. This is something London Councils, which represents the capital’s boroughs, has long been arguing for and we will...

At a recent PM Direct at the Mercedes-Benz apprentice training academy in Milton Keynes, David Cameron answered questions on government apprenticeships policy in the round. Unfortunately for Cameron, the apprentices watching were less keen on asking questions than the...