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

Can employers really ban the burka in the workplace?

Following recent statements on banning religious clothing in the workplace, renewed attention has been brought on the UK’s legal framework on workplace dress codes
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
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'

Advertising helps fund Big Issue’s mission to end poverty
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'

'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?

Letters: Covid was a chance to reset. So why are we still working until we drop?
Letters

Letters: Covid was a chance to reset. So why are we still working until we drop?

Five years after Covid, why has working from home become a culture war fault line?
Five years on from the pandemic

Five years after Covid, why has working from home become a culture war fault line?

Labour warned it is 'undermining' its own welfare reforms with £5bn of benefits cuts
Benefits

Labour warned it is 'undermining' its own welfare reforms with £5bn of benefits cuts

DWP's new unemployment benefit and changes to work capability assessments, explained
Benefits

DWP's new unemployment benefit and changes to work capability assessments, explained

The government has a choice: Slash benefits and destroy lives or support disabled people
Keir Starmer
James Watson-O’Neill

The government has a choice: Slash benefits and destroy lives or support disabled people

Working from home vital for disabled people to keep a job, DWP told ahead of benefit cuts
Working from home

Working from home vital for disabled people to keep a job, DWP told ahead of benefit cuts

Advertising helps fund Big Issue’s mission to end poverty
On Falling director Laura Carreira: 'We don't have to work so much and get paid so little'
Film

On Falling director Laura Carreira: 'We don't have to work so much and get paid so little'

How the miners' strike changed the way Britain works, 40 years on
Miners' strike

How the miners' strike changed the way Britain works, 40 years on

Are disability benefit claimants 'ready to work'? The truth behind DWP's claims ahead of welfare reforms
A meeting of the child poverty taskforce. From left to right: Mayor of the North East Kim McGuinness, work and pensions secretary Liz Kendall and education secretary Bridget Phillippson.
Disability benefits

Are disability benefit claimants 'ready to work'? The truth behind DWP's claims ahead of welfare reforms

Government urged to stop using 'personality tests' in its hiring process: 'Big barrier for autistic people'
a woman in business attire sits with a
Employment

Government urged to stop using 'personality tests' in its hiring process: 'Big barrier for autistic people'