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Britain can afford an above-inflation increase in their national minimum wage, Chancellor George Osborne has said. Mr Osborne indicated he was ready to contemplate a rise in the £6.31-an-hour minimum wage to £7. His comments came shortly after the Department for Business made its submission to the Low Pay Commission, which will soon make recommendations on the rise.
Work/Employment	The Sentinel, January 17, 2014



A furious row has broken out at the heart of the coalition Government over the right of European Union nationals to work in the UK, with Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg branding proposals floated in a leaked Home Office document ‘illegal and undeliverable’. Reports say Home Secretary Theresa May wants to introduce a cap on EU migration with professionals and high-skilled migrants from wealthy countries allowed in only if they had a job offer and lower-skilled workers permitted to settle only if they were employed in posts where there was an identified shortage.
Work/Employment	The Sentinel, December 17, 2013



More than 400,000 people have lost Jobseeker’s Allowance under new Government sanctions aimed at ensuring they actively seek work. Some 580,000 sanctions were handed down between October 2012 and June 2013, a six percent rise on the same period a year earlier, before rules were toughened. The reasons for withdrawal of the benefits range from leaving a job voluntarily to failing to attend an interview. The Government said the sanctions were used as a deterrent. The latest figures have been published by the Department for Work and Pensions. The new sanctions were introduced on October 22 2012. If a comparison is made between November 2012 and June 2013 and the same period a year earlier, then there was an 11% rise in sanctions. In the most extreme cases, individuals can lose the benefit for three years if, for example, they leave three jobs voluntarily.
Work/Employment	The Sentinel, November 7, 2013



The percentage of households with at least one person out of work has fallen to its lowest level since records began in l996. So-called workless households stood at 17.1% in the three months to June, down from 17.9% a year ago and 19.2% in the same period in 2010. The number of people aged between 16 and 64 in workless households has fallen to 4.9 million, the first time it has been below five million since 2008, according to the Office for National Statistics. Other data showed that the number of children in workless households is 1.6 million, with two-thirds living in single-parent families. The number of households where no one has ever worked stands at 297,000, down by 43,000 over the past year.
Work/Employment	The Sentinel, August 29th 2013



The Government’s controversial benefits cap is now fully in place across the country, Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith has announced. The cap – which limits benefits to £500 a week for couples and lone parents and £350 a week for single adults – is a key plank of Mr Duncan Smith’s welfare reforms. It is expected to affect about 40,000 households…Ministers argue that it restores fairness to the benefits system, ensuring that households where no-one is working cannot claim more than the average family earns. But critics say that it penalises out-of-work families in areas with high housing charges, forcing them to move out to cheaper areas.
Work/Employment	The Sentinel, September 27 2013



The number of women in work has increased over the past 40 years, while men’s employment has fallen, new research claims. Around 67 per cent of women are in employment, up from 53 per cent in 1971, while for men the rate has slumped from 92 per cent to 76 per cent. The Office for National Statistics said of the 13.4 million women in work, 42 per cent were part-time, compared with 12 per cent of the 15.3 million men in employment. Men in full-time jobs worked an average of 44 hours a week, four more than women.
Work/Employment	The Sentinel, September 26 2013



Major construction companies are to compensate workers whose names were on a secret industry blacklist. The move follows years of campaigning by unions after it was discovered that more than 3,200 names, mainly of building workers, were kept on the list, drawn up by an organisation called The Consulting Association. Workers involved claimed they were denied work, often for merely raising legitimate concerns about health and safety on building sites. Legal action is being taken on behalf of some of those on the list. A statement said: “The companies – Balfour Beatty, Carillion, Costain, Kier, Laing O‘Rourke, Sir Robert McAlpine, Skansa UK and VINCI PLC – all apologise for their involvement with TCA and the impact that its database may have had on any individual construction worker. The companies have joined together to establish the Construction Workers Compensation Scheme. It’s intended to make it as simple as possible for any worker with a legitimate claim to access compensation.”
Work/Employment	The Sentinel, 11 October 2013



The number of people claiming unemployment benefit is continuing to fall. Figures show there were 7,545 people picking up Jobseekers’ Allowance (JSA) in Stoke-on-Trent last month, compared to 7,758 in June. Data from the Office of National Statistics shows another slight fall in claimants in Newcastle, with 2,164 people receiving JSA in July, compared to 2,193 the previous month. In the Staffordshire Moorlands, the JSA claimant count fell from 1,114 in June, to 1,031 last month. However, over the border in South Cheshire, the number of unemployment benefit claimants is up. In Cheshire East, 5,109 people collected the benefit – a slight increase on June when there were 5,099 claimants.
Work/Employment	The Sentinel, 15th August 2013



Churchill owner Direct Line Group warned of another 2,000 job cuts today as it said it was closing three UK sites under plans to slash more costs. Direct Line – the UK’s biggest motor insurer – said it would axe sites in Liverpool, Croydon and central London by the end of the year. It is consulting with staff over job losses across its entire 16-strong network of sites, with head office and support functions the hardest hit in the latest round of redundancies.
Work/Employment	The Sentinel – June 27, 2013



One in three people are stressed about work, according to research commissioned by Mind earlier this year. The survey of more than 2,000 people found that workplace stress affected more people (34%) than any other factor, including financial worries (30%) or health (17%). The survey discovered that workplace stress resulted in 7% (rising to 10% amongst 18 to 24-year-olds) having suicidal thoughts and one in five people (18%) developing anxiety.
Work/Employment	Inspire - July/August 2013



The number of people claiming Job Seekers Allowance (JSA) has fallen over the last month, new figures have revealed. Data released by the Office of National Statistics show there were 8,068 picking up the unemployment benefit in Stoke-on-Tent in May compared to 8,209 in April. In Newcastle the claimant count fell to 2,225 from 2,267 in April while in the Staffordshire Moorlands, 1,094 residents claimed JSA in May. This represents a fall of 60 claimants since April. A total of 5,332 jobseekers in Cheshire East claimed JSA, down from 5,612. The statistics showed the claimant count rate was higher in the North-East, at 7.2 per cent, last month and lowest in the South East at 2.7 per cent. Nationally Jobseekers Allowance claimants fell 8,600 in May to 1.51 million. The number of benefits claimants is at its lowest level in two years. Employment Minister Mark Hoban said businesses were doing their best against a “difficult economic backdrop.”
Work/Employment	The Sentinel, June 13th 2013



More than 1,000 long-term job-seekers in Stoke-on-Trent have finally found work in the past year. Most of them were on the Government’s Work Programme aimed at getting the unemployed off benefits and into work.
Work/Employment	The Sentinel, June 10, 2013



"Inherent conservatism" and the "generational" views of some chairmen are holding back talented women from being appointed into board roles, a leading head-hunter has claimed on the day an official report shows progress on diversity at the top has stalled. Katushka Giltsoff, a head-hunter at executive search firm the Miles Partnership, told The Daily Telegraph there were plenty of suitable, qualified women ready to take up board posts in the UK, but the outdated views of some chairmen were standing in their way. A new report by Cranfield School of Management, the Government's official monitor of the number of women on listed boards, will today reveal that the drive to increase female board representation has lost momentum. Over the past six months, the number of FTSE 100 board appointments going to women has dropped from 44pc to 26pc. In the FTSE 250, the figure has fallen from 36pc to 29pc, the report shows. Overall, the number of women on Britain's biggest 100 boards has risen over the past year, from 15pc to 17.3pc, but there are just 18 women FTSE 100 executive directors compared with 292 men, suggesting the flow of women along the "executive pipeline" is easing.
Work/Employment	Daily Telegraph April 10 2013



Workers send and receive 10,000 emails a year - but one in five never puts pen to paper, a study has found. More than 10 per cent look at a screen all day, and one in four isn't sure how they worked before email. The Warwick Business School study for energy firm npower shows how much we rely on new technology. The average worker sends and receives 40 emails a day, and for one in 12, the figure is more than 100.
Work/Employment	Daily Mail April 9 2013



The Government’s back-to-work schemes have suffered a setback after Appeal Court judges agreed with a university graduate’s claim that unpaid schemes were legally flawed. Cait Reilly, 24, said requiring her to work for nothing at a Poundland store breached laws on forced labour. Judges quashed the regulations underpinning the schemes. But the government is seeking permission to appeal to the Supreme Court.
Work/Employment	The Sentinel, February 13, 2013

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