11 h. ago John Lewis and Currys: two UK retail giants boost staff wages and money

The firms are investing millions in staff wages, but not everyone is celebrating 🎭

Politics

11 h. ago Dear Jobs Guru: ‘Can I make my employers pay for my private healthcare?’

Worker Drummond has discovered his overseas colleagues get private healthcare as a perk – now he wants to ask for something similar. Our Jobs Guru James Innes is here with some much-needed advice

Society

41 h. ago The reluctant collaborator: surviving Syria’s brutal civil war – and its aftermath

At 18, Mustafa was told his only way out of prison was to join the regime forces. After 14 years, his past as one of Assad’s fighters could get him killedMustafa was 16 when he was detained and beaten by the police for the first time. It was early 2011, and the first stirrings of the Arab spring had grown into anti-government demonstrations across the Middle East. In Syria, a sense of anxious anticipation hung in the air, and the government was responding with propaganda films and TV shows designed to fire up nationalist sentiment. A friend of Mustafa’s hired him to play an extra in one of these shows. The job didn’t pay much, but it was more fun than the long hours Mustafa spent working in a restaurant kitchen. Tall and handsome, with dark eyes and long eyelashes, Mustafa dreamed that maybe one day he could join the long list of Syrians who starred on Arab TV dramas.The youngest of three brothers and a sister, Mustafa had grown up in a crowded working-class district in the eastern ...

Events

41 h. ago Beatings, bribery, boredom: one man’s struggle to survive Syria’s brutal civil war

At 18, Mustafa was told his only way out of prison was to join the regime forces. After 14 years, his past as one of Assad’s fighters could get him killedMustafa was 16 when he was detained and beaten by the police for the first time. It was early 2011, and the first stirrings of the Arab spring had grown into anti-government demonstrations across the Middle East. In Syria, a sense of anxious anticipation hung in the air, and the government was responding with propaganda films and TV shows designed to fire up nationalist sentiment. A friend of Mustafa’s hired him to play an extra in one of these shows. The job didn’t pay much, but it was more fun than the long hours Mustafa spent working in a restaurant kitchen. Tall and handsome, with dark eyes and long eyelashes, Mustafa dreamed that maybe one day he could join the long list of Syrians who starred on Arab TV dramas.The youngest of three brothers and a sister, Mustafa had grown up in a crowded working-class district in the eastern ...

Events

3 d. ago Major city descends into wasteland as bin workers go on strike: Mountains of rubbish overflowing onto the streets and rats scurrying around everywhere

Nearly 400 council bin workers in Birmingham have walked out indefinitely as part of an escalating dispute over jobs and pay.

Events

3 d. ago Major city descends into wasteland as bin workers go on strike: Mountains of rubbish overflows onto the streets and rats scurry around everywhere

Nearly 400 council bin workers in Birmingham have walked out indefinitely as part of an escalating dispute over jobs and pay.

Events

3 d. ago Council refuse workers begin indefinite strike amid row over jobs and pay

The Unite union has warned disruption caused by bin strikes could stretch into the summer months.

Economics

9 d. ago M&S: Marks and Spencer to increase pay for 50,000 UK workers in April despite cost challenges

The retailer is boosting staff wages in the face of rising costs 💰

Economics

2 w. ago After slashing federal workers’ jobs, Elon Musk suggests pay hike for politicians

Members of Congress earn $174,000 per year, the same salary since 2009

Politics

2 w. ago Why it's important to remember Scotland's police officers, nurses and social workers are real

Emergency service personal and other public sector workers do difficult jobs for relatively low levels of pay and save countless lives

Events

3 w. ago Artists having to take on several other jobs to pay the bills – Arts Council

Roisín McDonough also warned a Stormont Committee of hemorrhaging talent.

Economics

3 w. ago EastEnders icon Cheryl Fergison 'taking jobs for no pay' and is 'just surviving'

EastEnders star Cheryl Fergison, who played Heather Trott on the BBC One soap for five years until 2012, has been suffering financial woes after her character was killed off

Events

3 w. ago Wages growth outstrips inflation rate as unemployment rate remains steady

The Office for National Statistics said average regular pay surged to 5.9 per cent in the three months to December

Economics