minimum wage
Cutting the minimum wage won’t be what boosts growth
At a time when the mainstream political discourse seems preoccupied with boosting low pay, living wages and a citizens income it seems odd that the Conservatives would float the idea of reducing the National Minimum Wage. As many have rushed to point out, most evidence suggests that it boosts growth, putting money in the pockets of those most likely to spend
Making work pay…by freezing the minimum wage
The chancellor George Osborne will make a speech today in which he will say the government is “making work pay” through tax and benefit changes. Making work pay is an admirable goal and something that everyone on the left supports. The problem, however, is that the government’s idea of making work pay is radically different to that of most progressives, as a quick glance at today’s Daily Telegraph makes clear.
Always on call: the problem of zero hour contracts
Andrew Tromans is a History and Politics student at the University of Sheffield. For many people the notion of a […]
Poll exclusive: Working people want pressure on pay avoidance
Unions 21 director Dan Whittle reports on new polling on pay and profits.
Just building more homes is unlikely to fix London’s problems
What can be done and what is being done to London's housing crisis? A new report by the Green Party's Darren Johnson AM aims to move the argument forward.
The 12 practical problems of localising public sector pay
Neil Foster presents 12 problems with the government's unfair, unworkable, and regressive plan to localise public sector pay.