Remember how the agency workers directive was going to take 500,000 jobs? Yeah, well…
Alex Hern reviews the effect of the Agency Workers Directive, and finds that the right were so very wrong about what it would do to jobs.
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Government and CBI speak out against domestic workers’ rights
The British government and the CBI spoke out against an International Labour Organization convention supporting the rights of domestic workers.
What does responsibility actually mean to those at the top?
Ed Miliband’s speech marks something new, and suggests a significant shift. So what does this responsibility mean when it comes to those at the top of society?
Fisked: CBI’s misleading email on Energy Bill
Left Foot Forward has obtained a copy of an email from the CBI to MPs. They are lobbying against including a plant-level emissions performance standard in the Energy Bill.
CBI public sector sickness plans place quantity of man-hours over quality
Today’s CBI report – outlining £120 billion of public sector savings – talks of “improving workforce management by adopting good private sector practice, including better management of staff sickness and temporarily freezing the public sector pay bill”. In reality, thattest
Manufacturing decline ended in January
While the OECD and other forecasters continue to pump out gloomy assessments of the outlook for the UK economy, most commentators appear not to have noticed that the decline in manufacturing activity ended as long ago as January.