by Agency Reporter | Mar 29, 2023 | Briefing
WORKER SURVEILLANCE PRACTICES are increasingly the new normal, despite their negative and discriminatory impact on employees, according to a new report from IPPR. Technologies like webcam, movement and email monitoring exploded in popularity during the pandemic, and...
by Agency Reporter | Mar 29, 2023 | Briefing
THE INTERNATIONAL Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) and the Government of the Islamic Republic of Mauritania have signed a loan agreement for 5 million euros to finance the ‘Joint Sahel Programme in response to the Challenges of COVID-19, Conflicts and...
by Agency Reporter | Mar 28, 2023 | Briefing
TWO IN THREE (66 per cent) people with Long Covid who took part in a survey have experienced unfair treatment at work, according to a new Trades Union Congress (TUC) and Long Covid Support Employment Group report. More than 3,000 people with Long Covid responded to a...
by Agency Reporter | Mar 28, 2023 | Briefing
NEW RESEARCH from Transparency International reveals that nearly a third of all new jobs taken by former ministers and senior officials had a significant overlap with their previous brief, raising serious questions over how potential conflicts of interest are managed...
by Agency Reporter | Mar 27, 2023 | Briefing
ONLY ONE IN SEVEN of the British public are satisfied with social care services, according to analysis of the British Social Attitudes survey by the Nuffield Trust and The King’s Fund. The analysis from the two health and care think tanks reveals that just 14 per...
by Agency Reporter | Mar 27, 2023 | Briefing
A PRIVATE MEMBER’S BILL brought by the Bishop of Durham, Paul Butler, to abolish the two-child limit on Universal Credit has completed its passage through the House of Lords. The Bill had its third reading on 24 March and will now be considered in the House of...
