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Tuesday, 2 August, 2022

Tuesday, 26 July, 2022

UK social care

Exploitation of migrants is rising as care homes struggle to fill jobs

Chronic underfunding of the sector has led to recruitment problems and mistreatment of workers

Tuesday, 19 July, 2022

Social affairs

Young people are suffering a social recession

Rising loneliness among teenagers was a problem even before the pandemic

Tuesday, 5 July, 2022

Working It podcast21 min listen

Is hybrid work a trap for women?

Many women want flexibility but there is evidence it is not good for their careers

Tuesday, 28 June, 2022

UK employment

Young men are slipping quietly through the economy’s cracks

A positive employment trend for young women masks a rise in the proportion of inactive young men

Tuesday, 14 June, 2022

Employment

Farewell to the servant economy

‘On-demand’ services might have made people feel wealthy, but now the model is in jeopardy

Tuesday, 7 June, 2022

UK employment

Why are we all working so hard?

The intensification of work doesn’t seem to be making us richer, but it does appear to be making us sicker

Tuesday, 31 May, 2022

UK employment

Splintered UK labour market makes a wage-price spiral unlikely

The decline of trade unions and rise of self-employment argue against a repeat of 1970s-style inflation

Tuesday, 24 May, 2022

Minimum-Living wage

Why a higher UK minimum wage fails to spur productivity

A British experiment ended up with companies accepting lower profits, charging more or cutting investment

Tuesday, 17 May, 2022

UK employment

Beware the promise of salary advance schemes

Such products look increasingly attractive to some employees as the cost of living crisis bites

Tuesday, 10 May, 2022

New Zealand

New Zealand’s jobs law will cause ripples beyond its shores

Introducing fair pay agreements would reverse 30 years of labour market deregulation

Tuesday, 3 May, 2022

UK employment

Rot festers in the lower depths of the British labour market

Poor regulation of umbrella companies is bad for workers, taxpayers and decent businesses alike

Tuesday, 26 April, 2022

Pension automatic enrolment

When a pensions policy is a resounding success, we should say so

There remains more to do but automatic enrolment has had a transformational effect

Tuesday, 12 April, 2022

UK employment

Why the middle-class capture of apprenticeship matters

Reforms have led to a sharp fall in England in younger apprentices from poorer areas

Tuesday, 5 April, 2022

Working It podcast29 min listen

Is this the end of work as we know it?

Why millions are quitting their jobs, working less, or declaring themselves anti-work

Tuesday, 5 April, 2022

Amazon.com

Union victory for Amazon warehouse could change US labour movement

Grassroots Staten Island win shows the power of organising from the bottom up

Tuesday, 29 March, 2022

UK employment

The P&O debacle shows that UK labour law needs an overhaul

There are too many loopholes and grey areas that unscrupulous employers can exploit

Tuesday, 22 March, 2022

Future of work

A four-day week might benefit employers as well

Experiments have shown that workers’ hours can be cut without a corresponding drop in output

Thursday, 17 March, 2022

FT Magazine

How did a vast Amazon warehouse change life in a former mining town?

Ten years after her groundbreaking investigation into the retail giant, Sarah O’Connor returns to Rugeley to find out what’s changed

Tuesday, 15 March, 2022

War in Ukraine

Europe has done the right thing by allowing Ukrainian refugees to work

But access to employment must be underpinned by services to help new arrivals to support themselves

Thursday, 3 March, 2022

FT CollectionsClaudia Goldin

Claudia Goldin: ‘Greedy work has been made less greedy’

The pandemic has helped facilitate flexible working, which might make top jobs more compatible with family life

Tuesday, 1 March, 2022

Coronavirus economic impact

Better UK sick pay will help us live with Covid

Britain lags behind countries like Germany in the help it gives to workers who fall ill

Tuesday, 22 February, 2022

Artificial intelligence

Never mind Big Tech — ‘little tech’ can be dangerous at work too

‘Algorithmic management’ is spreading beyond gig platforms and logistics warehouses to other sectors

Tuesday, 15 February, 2022

UK immigration

Keeping asylum seekers in limbo is bad for everyone

‘Human capital’ is damaged when people are shut out of labour markets and forced to sit idle

Tuesday, 8 February, 2022

UK employment

In unequal Britain, why aren’t there more Dick Whittingtons?

The government’s ambition to spread highly-skilled jobs more evenly around the country is a good one

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