Work

Low-paid and sick workers less likely to have flexible working options: 'Not a nice-to-have'
A woman works at a laptop
Employment

Low-paid and sick workers less likely to have flexible working options: 'Not a nice-to-have'

New research has discovered big gaps in how likely people are to have access to flexibility – and led for calls for employers to make flexible working the default
Insecure work and the gig economy: Employment in Britain worse than reported, study finds
a delivery driver carrying boxes to a van
Work

Insecure work and the gig economy: Employment in Britain worse than reported, study finds

The Employment Rights Act is here. Will 2026 be the year that work gets better?
Alice Martin

The Employment Rights Act is here. Will 2026 be the year that work gets better?

I broke down a door to save my disabled colleague's life – then rebuilt his home
Unsung heroes

I broke down a door to save my disabled colleague's life – then rebuilt his home

Employers are being urged to step up and help disabled people stay in work. But is it enough?
Work

Employers are being urged to step up and help disabled people stay in work. But is it enough?

Advertising helps fund Big Issue’s mission to end poverty
Growing number of disabled people turning to sex work amid benefit cuts and rising living costs
Sex work

Growing number of disabled people turning to sex work amid benefit cuts and rising living costs

Older workers are turning to Botox and plastic surgery to keep their jobs: 'What a depressing thought'
An older person having plastic surgery examination
Employment

Older workers are turning to Botox and plastic surgery to keep their jobs: 'What a depressing thought'

What we can learn about authenticity from Greta Thunberg and Marcus Rashford
Steven D’Souza

What we can learn about authenticity from Greta Thunberg and Marcus Rashford

Privately educated elite five times more likely to take Britain's most powerful and influential jobs
Rishi Sunak and Keir Starmer
Education

Privately educated elite five times more likely to take Britain's most powerful and influential jobs

Universal credit sanctions 'undermine' Jobcentre employment support, DWP warned by MPs
A DWP Jobcentre
Department for Work and Pensions

Universal credit sanctions 'undermine' Jobcentre employment support, DWP warned by MPs

Can employers really ban the burka in the workplace?
Paul Kelly

Can employers really ban the burka in the workplace?

Most people with ADHD do not tell their employer – here's why we must break the silence
Photo shows a man working on a laptop with his head in one hand
Louise Ansari

Most people with ADHD do not tell their employer – here's why we must break the silence

Why so many Gen Z workers are retiring in their 20s
Society

Why so many Gen Z workers are retiring in their 20s

Travelling for work shouldn't be a postcode lottery – but our transport system makes it one
A bus stop at Nailsea
Clive Wratten

Travelling for work shouldn't be a postcode lottery – but our transport system makes it one

Sex workers 'trapped' in prostitution by 'unjust' police cautions: 'It stopped me from having a career'
Criminal justice

Sex workers 'trapped' in prostitution by 'unjust' police cautions: 'It stopped me from having a career'

Migrant workers are holding Britain together – but we're still treated like we don't belong
social care crisis sees care workers experiencing low pay
Munya Radzi

Migrant workers are holding Britain together – but we're still treated like we don't belong

Delivery bikes outside hotels prove only one thing: The ban on work for asylum seekers must be lifted
Deliveroo delivery person on a bicycle
Nathan Philips

Delivery bikes outside hotels prove only one thing: The ban on work for asylum seekers must be lifted

Benefit cuts are not a 'pathway to work' – they risk making people homeless
a blue tent pitched in a car park with a shopping trolley and plastic bags leaning against it
Emma Haddad

Benefit cuts are not a 'pathway to work' – they risk making people homeless

If Labour really wants to protect women, it must restore domestic workers' rights
Marissa Begonia

If Labour really wants to protect women, it must restore domestic workers' rights

'It's a vicious cycle': Labour's benefit cuts could push people with MS out of work, report finds
Liz Kendall
Multiple sclerosis

'It's a vicious cycle': Labour's benefit cuts could push people with MS out of work, report finds

Skins star on how OnlyFans changed her life: 'I was earning a living wage for the first time'
Sex work

Skins star on how OnlyFans changed her life: 'I was earning a living wage for the first time'

Advertising helps fund Big Issue’s mission to end poverty
'Much more stressful': Women less likely than men to have an 'appropriate' work at home space
Online learning
Work at home

'Much more stressful': Women less likely than men to have an 'appropriate' work at home space

I was a migrant working in a warehouse. Then I got a role in a film about doing exactly that
On Falling film advert
Film

I was a migrant working in a warehouse. Then I got a role in a film about doing exactly that

More than half a million young Brits not in work, training or education have never had a paid job
a young person sat on a bench
Employment

More than half a million young Brits not in work, training or education have never had a paid job

I was trafficked and forced to work 23 hours a day. How was I meant to return to normality?
Modern slavery

I was trafficked and forced to work 23 hours a day. How was I meant to return to normality?