Minimum wage will not rise f...

March 19, 2012

Although it was a hard decision to make, according to Vince Cable, there will not be a rise in the minimum pay rate for young people. Rates are frozen for the moment for anyone under 20 years of age b...

Jobless rate slowly falling...

March 14, 2012

Jobs in the private sector are showing signs of finally offsetting the redundancies within the public sector. However, at the same time, millions of workers have effectively taken a pay cut and are no...

Young black men currently th...

March 11, 2012

The most recent data released by the Office for National Statistics show that the jobless rate amongst young black men is now more than doubled and is currently grater than 50%. Figures are not much b...

Chaos in the work experience...

February 23, 2012

Recently Tesco made an announcement that the store would begin offering wages to those on benefits who have been working unpaid within their chain of stores. This appears to have caused a bit of chaos...