The mirage of universal basic income
7 June 2023
The idea of a universal basic income does not stand up to close examination and offers nothing for workers. The latest proposals are no different.
Employment
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Universal Basic Income - no solution
20 May 2021
A universal basic income sounds nice and fair, but behind the superficial attractiveness is the flawed concept that the future for our society will not involve productive work for all.
Gig economy: Defeat for Uber
The GMB union is claiming a “historic win” after the Supreme Court ruled that Uber drivers are not self-employed but are workers.
Tanker drivers set to strike
Tanker drivers based at Stanlow oil refinery in Cheshire have overwhelmingly voted for strike action against redundancies.
Wages on the up - just
Wage growth in the UK rose to 3.6 per cent in the year to May 2019, the highest growth rate since 2008, according to Office for National Statistics figures.
Employment and earnings on the rise - a little
27 July 2019
Wage growth in the UK rose to 3.6 per cent in the year to May 2019, the highest growth rate since 2008, according to official figures – despite media gloom over Brexit.
Internships scandal
Unpaid internships are combining with rising living costs to shut poorer youngsters out of many careers.
Smoke and mirrors
Uber cabs, Uber economy, Uber employment – we’re deluged in disinformation about this business model…
Internships 'shutting out' youngsters, says report
17 February 2018
Unpaid internships, combined with rising living costs, are shutting less-advantaged youngsters out of many careers, according to a study from social mobility campaigners the Sutton Trust.
Gig companies go on the attack
10 July 2017
Even as the Taylor review called on Monday (10 July) for some kind of controls on casualisation, proponents of the “gig” economy are mounting further ideological challenges define what a worker is by their own criteria.
Gagged and bound: the fine print of a casual contract
A worker under EU and UK employment law has limited if very few employment rights compared with an employee who has contractual and statutory rights.
Caught in the casual trap
Self-employment was a nice wheeze to falsify the real state of full-time employment. But it’s spiralled out of control and created a £3.5+ billion black hole in Treasury planning. But it’s workers who suffer the most…
Employment review gathers momentum
26 January 2017
The government’s “independent” review into employment practices in the economy is now moving to a rolling roadshow – but it’s slanted in favour of the employers from day one.
They call this protection?
Ask a europhile about the “benefits” of the EU and one that might be thrown in your face is the Agency Workers Directive. Yet as trade union lawyer John Hendy has pointed out, it “appears helpful but in fact has led to a massive increase across Europe in the number of workers employed through agencies and hence without the full rights of directly employed workers”
Underemployment: Working, but not enough
2 October 2014
The number of underemployed in the workforce is increasing, according to TUC analysis in September of the latest Labour Force Survey from the Office for National Statistics.
Self-employment on the rise
The level of workers categorised as self-employed has reached its highest level in Britain for over 40 years according to the Office for National Statistics.