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One in five nurseries and pre-schools lost a quarter of their employees to job pressures in 2019

Fleur Doidge
9 March, 2020

Workers such as teachers suffering from years of government cuts are continuing to leave the industry.

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Flybe employees stand to lose so much more than their jobs

Prem Sikka
9 March, 2020

Current practices at Flybe (and many other firms) mean employees risk losing their pensions too when companies collapse.

The government saw Flybe’s collapse coming. What next?

Fiona Dent
6 March, 2020

The airline’s problems go way beyond coronavirus.

The fight to save the BBC from Tory ideologues is on

Josiah Mortimer
6 March, 2020

Johnson’s senior adviser Dominic Cummings is believed to be behind hostile briefings against the Beeb. But defenders of public service broadcasting are getting organised.

Budget 2020: The government must turn Britain’s divided economy around. Here’s how

Prem Sikka
6 March, 2020

Next Wednesday’s budget is an opportunity for the government to bring the country back from the brink, writes Prof Prem Sikka

MPs slam DWP’s ‘shocking’ handling of benefit claimant suicides

Josiah Mortimer
6 March, 2020

An influential committee has condemned the department’s total lack of proper processes when it comes to welfare claimants taking their own lives.

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Labour MP: Don’t sanction benefit claimants quarantined over coronavirus

Joe Lo
5 March, 2020

Universal Credit is notoriously unflexible.

Wilko threatens to cut company sick pay

Joe Lo
5 March, 2020

It will lead to more staff going to work when ill.

Home Office: Homicide rate may be rising but at least its not as bad as the 14th century

Joe Lo
5 March, 2020

The Home Office also said cuts to police numbers are likely to have increased homicides.

Austerity cuts to public toilets make coronavirus handwashing harder, says Unison

Joe Lo
5 March, 2020

Almost 1,000 public toilets have closed since 2010.

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