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Labour Party Deflects Union Push for Four-Day Week Ahead of U.K. Election

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has been calling on Labour to make an official policy. Despite being on the agenda under Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership in 2019, a 32-hour workweek is not part of the party’s plan in 2024. However, not all unions align with prioritizing a shorter workweek on the agenda.

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Young Men In The UK Are Being Failed By The System — What Needs To Happen To Reverse This Worrying Unemployment Trend?

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A report ( Not Working ) by one of the UK’s leading policy think tanks, The Resolution Foundation, indicates that since 1995, the number of economically inactive young people has declined from 1.1 The current situation is unlikely to improve unless there is a firm commitment to rapid policy change. million to 800,000. .

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People now less engaged, less fulfilled and more stressed in their working lives

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Compared to 2019, workers today are less enthused about work, less likely to perceive their work as useful and more likely to simply see work as purely transactional – simply for the money. A third of people sometimes feel bored at work (33 percent), 26 percent sometimes feel miserable, and 21 percent sometimes feel lonely.

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Stephen Bevan – a tribute

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Over more than two decades, Steve has been the leading voice on employment policy and workplace practice: advising governments and independent reviews, working directly with major employers, and leading research to help improve our understanding of what works and what could make a difference.

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Apple Announces Historic $500 Billion Investment and Thousands More U.S. Jobs

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By gaining greater control over its processes, Apple can enhance its domestic independence, ensuring stable production that remains unaffected by international policy shifts and, most importantly, spiraling disruptions. manufacturers.

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12 documentaries and series that will give you an up-close look at climate change — and some solutions

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Gore may not have gotten the policy response he wanted, but the film jump-started a national conversation about our role in global warming. . Cooked: Survival by Zip Code , 2019, directed by Judith Helfand. Long-standing inequalities often distort environmental politics and policies in the US.

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GOP Pushes Bills For Strict Limits On Federal Telework

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107), which would mandate that federal agencies revert to pre-pandemic telework policies from December 2019. This bill has previously failed to make it out of committee but is back on the agenda. Andy Biggs (R-Ariz.) has also revived his Return to Work Act (H.R. In addition, Sen.

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