This European Court decision could be a game-changer for workers rights…
Bogus self-employment could soon become a thing of the past after a major ECJ ruling. That is, until workers’ rights are torn up post-Brexit.
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From Old King Coal to Carmagedon: It’s time to rethink our relationship with the car
With air pollution a factor in almost 40,000 UK deaths per year and 44 cities breaching air quality guidelines, we need a new Clean Air Act fit for the 21st century.
One pound extra for workers’ rights at Deliveroo? We should all be prepared to pay it
Deliveroo are resisting better conditions on the grounds that it would push up prices. Customers should call their bluff and and be willing to cough up.
Do we still need the Green Party?
We now have an insurgent left-wing Labour party in this country – does this make the Greens redundant?
Britain’s self-employment boom relies on a diminution of workers’ rights
15 per cent of the British workforce are now self-employed but this often comes at the cost of job security and employer obligations such as pensions and sick pay.
Jeremy Hunt will ‘bring the gig economy into the NHS’ with new health worker app
The health secretary just announced a new NHS app to help staff ‘do extra hours at short notice’.
The spread of precarious work is a political choice. We have to be bold in tackling it
Green co-leader Jonathan Bartley says we must be radical in responding to the gig economy – so that workers don’t just survive, but thrive.
Someone just joined the House of Lords through the votes of 16 aristocrats
And we know next to nothing about him.
Community and religious groups are having to fill the gaps left by austerity
Aid and welfare have become the concerns of local people following cuts to local services across Europe
Moderate Tories like Anna Soubry need to think hard about what comes next
The party’s centrists must make their presence felt