The Green Party needs to embrace a £15 an hour minimum wage or embrace irrelevance
To be a 27 year old hospitality worker in 2022 is to live fairly frugally. As a barista in Brighton and Hove, the phrase “London rents, Brighton wages” is fairly…
Victoria’s Secret forced to pay $8.3 million in stolen wages to Thai workers
Victoria’s Secret has paid $ million to over 1,250 Thai garment workers, who have been fighting for stolen wages for over a year. The Brilliant Alliance factory in Samut Prakan…
Time for a living wage
Matthew works for responsible investment campaigning group Fairpensions The Sunday Times Rich List is strangely addictive. The longer you look at it the more active your imagination becomes. What would…
New unemployment figures: good news?
Just a quick post on the latest ONS labour market figures here. The figures on unemployment are being reported as broadly, but not excessively, good news for the government. The…
Rich getting richer as the cuts & inflation kick the rest
If you want to know what's happening in the economy, you can do worse than looking at which businesses are succeeding and failing. And so two stories leep out from…