This @ilo.org report on Cambodia highlights the worrying temporalities of platform work. The workers - delivery riders & tuk tuk and taxi drivers - were found to devote almost all week to their jobs, including unpaid time waiting for customers/delivery requests. www.ilo.org/resource/new...

Digital labour platforms in Cambodia offer opportunities for businesses and workers despite the challenges of informality, says ILO study

Findings point to the need for stronger social protection, occupational safety and health measures, and greater clarity on employment classification.

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Worrying new @ilo.org report on the global rise of youth unemployment. www.ilo.org/resource/new...

Youth unemployment rises as young people face a harder road to decent work

New ILO report finds global youth unemployment rising, with some of the sharpest increases in higher-income economies and more young people outside employment, education or training.

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What happens when productivity rises, but workers don’t get more time back? Drawing on @julietschor.bsky.social’s decades of research, Steve Early and Suzanne Gordon examine the renewed push for a 32-hour work week—and the labor power it would take to make it widespread.

A 4-Day Work Week Sounds Great. How Do We Get One?

Workers deserve far more time off the job. But getting to a shorter work week will require a labor movement that can wield power to extract such demands.

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Fiscal devolution, transport, housing, planning, 16-19 skills, employment support… and an autumn white paper. These are very big changes to English government/governance. www.gov.uk/government/n...

PM hands mayors share of income tax to make lives better in every postcode

The Prime Minister will today launch the biggest transfer of power from Westminster in a generation, giving communities greater control over the decisions that shape jobs, transport, housing and publi...

gov.uk

A new resource from @britishacademy.bsky.social, out today, maps changes in UK academic staff numbers and contract types between 2012/13 & 2024/25 for the arts, humanities & social sciences bit.ly/4w47SmP You can search by subject (incl history), provider, region & forms of employment #Skystorians

I read this and I find myself wondering: what was the Starmer-Reeves theory of a) how elections are won b) how linear time works

There's a 3-month Research and Communications internship going at the Global Labour Institute (Manchester) which might be of interest to current students or those looking for more experience in labour rights, education etc www.gli-manchester.net/2026/05/gli-...

GLI Internship Opportunity – Research & Communications Assistant • www.gli-manchester.net

Location: Manchester, UK (Central Manchester office), office-based Hours: Flexible – up to two days per week (approximately 15 hours per week) Salary: Manchester Living Wage (£13.45 per hour) Contract...

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Glen O'Hara@gsoh31.bsky.social · 4mo ago

NEW from me: many of our universities are now in a dying fall. A new global-national-regional-local split is opening up, which could choke off progress on almost all the Government's plans. Do they have a plan? Nope, nothing, not a clue. 👇 isrf.org/blog/whats-t...

Absolutely terrific, brain-sharpening read:

A taxonomy of public spending schemes

If the rich pay more do the poor pay less?

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Without family voting, British Asians would have instead voted for…the guy who thinks that they are not British? Or the woman who both reputable polls showed in third place? Seems legit!

Interesting new @benrharrison.bsky.social @workfoundation.bsky.social analysis of some of the data on zero hours contracts: a record high of zero-hour contract workers depend on them for full-time work (32.8%) www.lancaster.ac.uk/work-foundat...

Zero-hour contracts reach new record high as workers wait for new rights to arrive - Lancaster University

The Work Foundation at Lancaster University warns that the number of people on zero-hour contracts has reached record levels and calls for the Government to deliver new rights for workers in early 202...

lancaster.ac.uk

Reminder for journos about the unemployment rate: the denominator isn't all people it's all people *working or looking for work*. A more accurate description of the youth unemployment rate would be "1 in 6 young people who want to work don't have a job". archive.is/202602180759...

Important new paper with obvious implications for America's own natalism-neoliberalism conversation. Between 2010-2020, spending cuts at the local level suppressed the fertility of poor households, NOT wealthier ones. Minority women more likely to be in areas w/spending cuts. doi.org/10.1093/sf/s...

This is quite a story for English Higher Education policy. #Budget2025 on.ft.com/4ogqPxZ Threshold for repaying student loans to converge with minimum wage

Threshold for repaying student loans to converge with minimum wage

Surprise move from chancellor means some university graduates in England may have to pay back debts sooner

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The 2026 minimum wage rates have been announced: NLW: £12.21➡️£12.71. (+4.1%) 18-20-yo rate: £10➡️£10.85. (+8.5%) 16-17-yo rate: £7.55➡️£8.00. (+6%) Some context & thoughts on those uprating decisions:

🫱🏻‍🫲🏻 We’re collaborating with Decent Work and the City during #GoodEmploymentWeek: ✔️ How to make the #GoodEmploymentCharter work for women 📅 25th Nov 🕜 1.30–3.30pm 📍 Alliance Business School It'll explore how to make the Charter more inclusive of women’s needs. 🔗 www.eventbrite.ca/e/how-to-mak...

A few weeks ago this Reform rising star went on LBC & said young people were being paid too much,citing his experience in hospitality. So we looked into his companies & found 3 tribunal judgments for failure to pay wages, holiday pay & provide contracts www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2025...

More fuel for @stephenkb.bsky.social’s theory that post-AI jobs will include bank teller - and now also door-to-door opinion pollster.

Josh McCrain@joshmccrain.bsky.social · 10mo ago

new paper by Sean Westwood: With current technology, it is impossible to tell whether survey respondents are real or bots. Among other things, makes it easy for bad actors to manipulate outcomes. No good news here for the future of online-based survey research

Working on the Nov issue of my Digital Welfare State newsletter - what did Kier Starmer learn from his trip to Mumbai that might shape the UK's digital ID system? Why did thousands of families have their child benefit suspended when they went on holiday? Sign up for all this and more

🚨 Our new investigation out today reveals how thousands of people who've taken their bosses to employment tribunals & won, never got paid, even after they approached the government for help. This has serious implications for the Employment rights bill. www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2025...

Thousands of rogue bosses get away with not paying tribunal awards

The government scheme ‘enforcing’ money owed to workers has been unsuccessful in a staggering three-quarters of cases

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Radical right accommodation really does not work. New paper out with this exceptionally talented team @katharinalawall.bsky.social @robjohns75.bsky.social @drjennings.bsky.social @sarahobolt.bsky.social @zachdickson.bsky.social @danjdevine.bsky.social & @jack-bailey.co.uk doi.org/10.31235/osf...

New paper with @lisagarnham.bsky.social @profellenstu.bsky.social & @clemmiehilloconnor.bsky.social finds housing 3Cs (context, cost, condition) are recognised by researchers, policymakers & publics but only lived experience accounts centre a 4th C—control: journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/jc...

Millions of workers experience the problems associated with insecure work. This includes 1.1 million workers on low pay. Read more: buff.ly/0OSArrI

‘Austerity is a choice. The protection of the family at the expense of other ways of living is a choice. The transfer of public wealth to private wealth is a choice. Is abundance possible for all? Melinda Cooper thinks it is.’ Katrina Forrester reviews her new book: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Katrina Forrester · ‘I appreciate depreciation’: Dynastic Capitalism

Austerity is a choice. The protection of the family at the expense of other ways of living is a choice. The transfer of...

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Yes lack of awareness & effective scrutiny. At the end of 2024, 3.67m people had valid leave to remain or a visa which usually comes with no recourse to public funds conditions. That means a blanket ban on most income based benefits like UC, CB & no access to the equal opportunities PIP & DLA offer.

Chris Boyd@paperghost.bsky.social · last yr.

the article doesn't mention that people who aren't settled can't claim public funds, and kemi will never do this unless someone actually presses her on it. yet another tired example of "i will implement this thing we already do"

Very excited for the Social Policy Association annual conference, starting tomorrow! We'll be presenting some early findings from our @nuffieldfoundation.org project on Universal Credit, Good Work and Progression #York2025

SPA Employment policy group@spaemploysocsec.bsky.social · last yr.

16:00-17:30 Wednesday, 2 July, 2025, SLB/005 Symposium: Inclusive work and welfare: Examining welfare and work interactions and dimensions of job quality (including Levana Magnus, Anne Daguerre, Clara Mascaro, Ashwin Kumar, Katy Jones, Paul Sissons, Vanessa Fuertes)

Last day at @easp-spa-2025.bsky.social & hearing from @annieirvine.bsky.social & Cindy Leung on what’s wrong with the Work Capability Assessment <A Friday conference 🧵>

Hi 👋 we're moved over from X. This is the bluesky account for the @socialpolicyuk.bsky.social policy group for Employment (and Social Security). social-policy.org.uk/news/spa-pol...

SPA Policy Groups - Social Policy Association

The SPA exists to advance the teaching, research, and dissemination of knowledge in the field of social policy, and to represent the interests of our [...]

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Big day in Westminster today. But big implications for the whole country. A "zero-based" spending review means the government has been through all public spending and decided its priorities line by line. Follow for analysis through the day.

Our Labour Market Stats briefing blog has just been published. The unemployment rate is at the highest level in nearly four years, and combined figures indicate that employers have adjusted to rising costs by reducing workforce size and future workforce planning. Read: bit.ly/3ZoshF2