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Help people into green jobs with ‘Attenborough’ scholarships
Nearly 34,000 green jobs were lost between 2014 and 2019
Employment

Help people into green jobs with ‘Attenborough’ scholarships

Redundancy: Surviving the mental health impact of losing your job
Employment

Redundancy: Surviving the mental health impact of losing your job

Here's what it's like looking for work during the pandemic
Increasing numbers are being impacted by redundancy during the Covid-19 pandemic. Image credit: Pxhere
Employment

Here's what it's like looking for work during the pandemic

How one 18-year-old beat the odds through apprenticeships
Employment

How one 18-year-old beat the odds through apprenticeships

England faces £1.7 billion hit from public sector pay freeze, TUC claims
Rishi Sunak's plans for a public sector pay freeze could harm the economy, unions warn.
Employment

England faces £1.7 billion hit from public sector pay freeze, TUC claims

Green jobs key to avoid ‘long-term scarring’ from Covid unemployment
Workers installing solar panels on a roof. Experts told the Government green jobs are key in rebuilding from Covid
Employment

Green jobs key to avoid ‘long-term scarring’ from Covid unemployment

Unemployment: ‘I applied for 47 jobs and got three replies’
Dean Nicholson Matthew Peter unemployment statistics
Employment

Unemployment: ‘I applied for 47 jobs and got three replies’

'Fire and rehire' tactics used on 1 in 10 workers, says TUC
‘Fire and rehire’ has become more widespread, the TUC has claimed
Employment

'Fire and rehire' tactics used on 1 in 10 workers, says TUC

Low paid workers ‘twice as likely’ to have lost jobs during the pandemic
Job centre
Employment

Low paid workers ‘twice as likely’ to have lost jobs during the pandemic

The jobs and training providers helping us create opportunities in 2021
Employment

The jobs and training providers helping us create opportunities in 2021

‘Re-skilling has to be top priority’ for Government training plan
Gavin Williamson's skills and training plan
Employment

‘Re-skilling has to be top priority’ for Government training plan

‘A living nightmare’: British Gas workers strike over ‘fire and rehire’ plans
Bill Hawthorne British Gas strike
Employment

‘A living nightmare’: British Gas workers strike over ‘fire and rehire’ plans

‘Asking for help's the hardest part’: Veteran goes from homeless to keyworker
Musa Jallow jobs for veterans
Employment

‘Asking for help's the hardest part’: Veteran goes from homeless to keyworker

How The Big Issue is creating opportunities for even more people in 2021
Employment

How The Big Issue is creating opportunities for even more people in 2021

Will the 48-hour working week be scrapped?
An apprentice engineer studies charts with his supervisor
Employment

Will the 48-hour working week be scrapped?

The 'impossible choice' of being a working mum in lockdown
Gemma Whates is trying to run a business and home school her two boys.
Employment

The 'impossible choice' of being a working mum in lockdown

Advertising helps fund Big Issue’s mission to end poverty
Working parents seek childcare support after being denied furlough
Employment

Working parents seek childcare support after being denied furlough

Homeless to key worker: The social enterprise turning people's lives around
Beam has successfully placed 88 homeless individuals into key worker positions
Employment

Homeless to key worker: The social enterprise turning people's lives around

Tenants must not be left at mercy of Covid-19 rent debt, ministers told
Rent debt and eviction bans need tackling during the Covid-19 pandemic
Employment

Tenants must not be left at mercy of Covid-19 rent debt, ministers told

Thousands of British Gas workers strike over 'fire and rehire' row
Thousands of British Gas workers have begun five days of strike action.
Employment

Thousands of British Gas workers strike over 'fire and rehire' row

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