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The increase in the voluntary pay scheme will benefit more than 460,000 UK workers.

Workers and unions created the Labour Party. Yet Keir Starmer is keen to appeal to a very different constituency.

UK firms are still facing problems hiring staff in the third quarter of 2023, despite a continuing decline in the percentage of companies facing hiring difficulties, according to the latest Quarterly Recruitment Outlook by the British Chambers of Commerce (BCC) Insights Unit.

Calls for ‘urgent MOT’ to boost investment and growth following net zero and HS2 U-turns

The Department for Work and Pensions is to undergo major changes in how it manages people claiming Universal Credit.

Disabled people will be asked to work from home as part of a government bid to get more people back into jobs and to cut the benefits bill.

Sickness benefits will be denied to people who could work from home in a bid to slash the yearly £25.9 billion bill, ministers have announced.

Disabled people and those with health conditions, who are currently being held back from improving their lives through work, will be better supported to realise their potential under Government p

Unveiled by Work and Pensions Secretary Mel Stride this evening, the blitz is aimed at slashing the £26billion welfare budget.

Categories in work capability assessments are under review as some conditions can be better managed through home working.