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As of April 2027, the entitlement will be extended to ‘all types of pregnancy loss’ that occur before 24 weeks.
Changes to zero hours contracts are designed to improve employment terms for workers. Will the cost to employers undermine the plan?
The president has promised his approach will bring back jobs – but will they be good ones?
More households are now living below the benchmark figure for minimum income.
The protests against Javier Milei have lready begun.
Employment law is all at sea.
2020 has been the greatest ever global experiment in working from home. The pandemic will be the catalyst the flexible work discussion really needed.
Seemingly innocuous security chips could enable companies to monitor employees in more sinister ways.
Comic contracts can meet all the requirements for contracts to be legally binding.
Tech companies overseas are signing collective agreements with their employees. Might Australia be next?
When people get locked into the gig economy, it adversely affects other areas of their lives, from health to housing
With no guarantee of work or pay, is the stress of flexible work contracts affecting the health of workers?
Workers in the gig economy have to deal with labour insecurity but they also take on more risk by using their own money to buy the tools they need to work.
Life is messy – and it’s time we accepted that.
Digital technology makes it easy for people to join the so-called “gig” economy and compete for work. But what employment rights does this online workforce really have, if any?
Past hiring discrimination appears to lead African Americans to cast a wide net, while women tend to seek out roles historically associated with their gender.
Richard Branson has introduced a radical new policy for Virgin employees, offering his personal staff unlimited holiday rather than a fixed number of days in a given year. Announcing the idea on his blog…
The argument that strong employment rights are incompatible with economic growth has long exerted a strong influence on the minds of politicians. The relentless economic difficulties in the EU since 2008…
Footballers are employees, and they deserve the same protections from loss of earnings through injury as you or I. But the astronomical sums involved in the modern game could lead to a worrying situation…
If you are a carer, the need for flexibility can creep up slowly or arrive overnight. Guardian journalist Jackie Ashley and her broadcaster husband Andrew Marr experienced this after he suffered a stroke…



















