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'We're overdue an update:' A four-day working week will be 'the norm' in five years, most Brits say
four day working week
Four-day working week

'We're overdue an update:' A four-day working week will be 'the norm' in five years, most Brits say

More than 200 companies in the UK – employing some 5,000 staff – have already permanently adopted the 32-hour week with no loss of pay
Working from home isn't 'proper work', ex-Asda boss says. Is flexible work really destroying Britain?
Work from home

Working from home isn't 'proper work', ex-Asda boss says. Is flexible work really destroying Britain?

The world of work is changing. Will 2025 be the tipping point for the four-day working week?
Sam Hunt

The world of work is changing. Will 2025 be the tipping point for the four-day working week?

People with disabilities and ill health more likely to leave work, study finds – the DWP must fix this
Work

People with disabilities and ill health more likely to leave work, study finds – the DWP must fix this

Top 5 books about the workplace, chosen by award-winning novelist Ross Raisin
Books

Top 5 books about the workplace, chosen by award-winning novelist Ross Raisin

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Disabled people are paid £2 an hour less at work. Here's how to change this grossly unfair situation
disabled people working/ disability pay gap
Harriet Edwards

Disabled people are paid £2 an hour less at work. Here's how to change this grossly unfair situation

DWP minister: 'Disability pay gap marks a decade of lost potential for disabled people'
Disability sign/ DWP PIP can help people with disabilities or illness pay for extra costs
Stephen Timms

DWP minister: 'Disability pay gap marks a decade of lost potential for disabled people'

'Biggest upgrade to worker rights' or 'chaotic rush job'?: Labour's employment rights bill, explained
Keir Starmer, leader of the Labour Party, and Luke Charters, Labour’s candidate for York Outer, speak to apprentices at Persimmon Homes Germany Beck in York.
Employment rights bill

'Biggest upgrade to worker rights' or 'chaotic rush job'?: Labour's employment rights bill, explained

Labour's workers' rights plan slammed as 'unrecognisable' and a 'betrayal' by Unite union boss
Keir Starmer Labour Levelling Up
Workers' rights

Labour's workers' rights plan slammed as 'unrecognisable' and a 'betrayal' by Unite union boss

Train drivers to stage more strikes in May, ASLEF union announces: 'We won't back down'
Train strikes

Train drivers to stage more strikes in May, ASLEF union announces: 'We won't back down'

Millions of Brits think their jobs are 'meaningless.' Could a four-day working work week fix that?
Four-day working week

Millions of Brits think their jobs are 'meaningless.' Could a four-day working work week fix that?

I was abused, bullied and left in limbo as a migrant domestic worker. I'm proud of myself for surviving
Migrant domestic workers
Marigold Balquen

I was abused, bullied and left in limbo as a migrant domestic worker. I'm proud of myself for surviving

Over 500 employers named for 'cheating workers' out of minimum wage – but it's worse than you think
Minimum wage

Over 500 employers named for 'cheating workers' out of minimum wage – but it's worse than you think

Every single company embracing four-day working week says move has been 'positive', study finds
four-day week

Every single company embracing four-day working week says move has been 'positive', study finds

Working temperature: When is it too hot to work?
Woman working on laptop in the garden
Heatwave

Working temperature: When is it too hot to work?

Zero-hours contracts: Are they legal and what rights do they give me?
Gig economy workers tend to be on zero-hour contracts or short-term, freelance contracts rather than permanent jobs with a set number of hours.
Insecure work

Zero-hours contracts: Are they legal and what rights do they give me?

Meet the mums calling for immediate reform of childcare and flexible working
Two mothers in witch costumes hold sign: 'The future won't raise itself'
Childcare crisis

Meet the mums calling for immediate reform of childcare and flexible working

Asked to do unpaid overtime? That’s wage theft and it could be pushing your pay below minimum wage
Cafe worker totals up a till at the end of the day
Low pay

Asked to do unpaid overtime? That’s wage theft and it could be pushing your pay below minimum wage

Ocado Zoom workers face ‘botched’ fire and rehire tactics as MP highlights their ‘appalling treatment’
Ocado Zoom workers protest outside the company's depot in Acton. Image: IWGB
Gig economy

Ocado Zoom workers face ‘botched’ fire and rehire tactics as MP highlights their ‘appalling treatment’

Fire and rehire: Government blocks bill to protect workers
fire and rehire
Employment

Fire and rehire: Government blocks bill to protect workers