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Guest Blogpost from Richard Lynch: How has work changed in the past 60 years?
There is a lot of talk at present about how life in Britain has changed over the past 60 years – but how has work changed? The Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) looked at this...
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Guest Blogpost from Richard Lynch: “A windfall for the rich and we’re paying...
The March budget was delivered at a time when the economy is stagnating, output is still below 2008 levels, public and private investment is falling and unemployment and poverty levels are rising. Yet...
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Guest Blogpost from Richard Lynch: Another bad year for jobs?
Unemployment (Photo credit: born1945) 2011 was a bad year for unemployment and underemployment and, if the latest Labour Market Statistics are any guide, 2012 looks like being at least as bad. These...
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Guest Blogpost from Richard Lynch: “Mixed picture on pay”
The latest statistics show a mixed picture on pay, with figures from the pay research organisations reporting a continued improvement on last year but Office for National Statistics figures apparently...
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Guest Blogpost: Richard Lynch on Inflation
There was a further fall in inflation in February, the latest month for which figures are available, but prices are still rising faster than wages and than in competitor economies. The figures for the...
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Guest Blogpost from Richard Lynch: Paying the price for recession and stagnation
It is now four years since the worst global recession for over 70 years began to impact on UK jobs – and working people are still paying a high price for it and for the stagnation which has followed...
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Guest Blogpost from Richard Lynch: Employment rights roundup
National Minimum Wage rates are to be increased for adult workers and apprentices from 1 October 2012 but current rates are to remain frozen for young workers. The adult rate will be increased by a...
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Guest Blogpost from Richard Lynch: “Do you understand pension auto-enrolment?”
Less than a third of the UK workforce are members of an occupational pension scheme but this will begin to change when the last Labour government’s auto-enrolment scheme starts to be introduced later...
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Guest Blogpost: Richard Lynch – No medal-winning performance from the coalition
During the past month, Britain’s sporting heroes in Team GB have taken on the world at the Olympic Games and, with performances which exceeded expectations, have delivered our biggest haul of medals...
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Guest Blogpost: Richard Lynch – End This Depression Now!
Paul Krugman, winner of the Nobel Prize in economics, is one of the world’s strongest opponents of the austerity policies which have taken a grip in most western economies since the beginning of the...
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