14 h. ago North Sea oil worker wins £1m and immediately quits job after spending 7 months a year offshore

Christian Jones, 52, is the latest winner of the Omaze Monthly Millionaire Draw, scooping a life-changing £1 million prize, completely tax-free.

Economics

38 h. ago ‘Red cup rebellion’: striking Starbucks baristas urge customers to stay away

In Brooklyn, workers walked off the job in search of fair pay and conditions – and said many customers were in supportAt a popular Starbucks in Brooklyn’s Clinton Hill, hundreds of people – including workers, union allies, and community supporters – filled the sidewalks. In 40F (4.4C) weather, picketers held signs, marched, and chanted “What’s disgusting? Union-busting!” and “No contract, no coffee!”More than a thousand Starbucks workers across the US walked off the job on Thursday in over 40 cities, marking one of the largest coordinated actions yet by the rapidly-growing union movement inside the world’s largest coffee chain. Continue reading...

Economics

58 h. ago Whistleblower claims stopping drug Scots deaths is impossible with staffing crisis

Drug worker walked out of key job, claiming many addicted Scots get "less than minimum" help

Events

61 h. ago Workers take on side jobs to combat stagnant salaries and insecurity about employment

Working professionals in the U.S. are taking on side jobs to supplement their income amid frozen salaries, inflation and fear of layoffs

Economics

4 d. ago UK unemployment rises to 5%, the highest level in four years

ONS says jobs market worsening before budget, as HMRC reports falling number of workers on firms’ payrollsBusiness live – latest updatesUnemployment in the UK has risen by more than expected to the highest level in four years, official figures show, amid a worsening slowdown in the jobs market before Rachel Reeves’s autumn budget.With under three weeks to go before the chancellor’s tax and spending statement, figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) show the headline unemployment rate rose to 5.0% in the three months to the end of September, up from 4.8% in the previous quarter. Continue reading...

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8 d. ago Offshore oil workers must lose weight or face losing their jobs under new safety measures

The OEUK industry body will offer support to those who stand to be affected by the safety measure and says job losses would be the “absolute worst-case scenario”

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8 d. ago TfL staff take fight to Downing Street over visa rule changes that could force them to leave UK

Union leaders warn dozens of TfL workers could lose their jobs and right to remain in the UK after changes to skilled worker visa rules

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8 d. ago Offshore worker told to lose weight or they could lose their jobs

New guidelines from trade body Offshore Energies UK could see overweight workers lose their jobs if the fail to lose weight

Politics

8 d. ago Thousands of offshore workers could lose jobs if they fail to lose weight

Offshore Energies UK will from November 2026 require offshore staff to weigh a maximum of 124kg.

Events

9 d. ago Are NHS workers about to strike? Junior doctors set to walk out again

Thousands of junior doctors are expected to take part in strike action this month

Economics

1 week ago Tories call for workers rights Bill to be thrown out as it returns to Commons

The Bill is aimed at bolstering the rights of workers, including by extending a host of protections to workers from the first day they start a job.

Economics

2 w. ago Christian who had job offer withdrawn over views on homosexuality begins appeal

A 2024 tribunal heard that a charity withdrew the offer of a social worker job for Felix Ngole when it discovered online reports about his beliefs.

Politics

2 w. ago CBS parent company Paramount Skydance to cut 1,000 jobs this week in first round of layoffs: reports

The coming job cuts, reported to total around 2,000 workers, are part of an ongoing restructuring following the venerable entertainment company’s controversial merger this August

Society

2 w. ago Workers rights bill and living wage rise 'will lead to a jobs bloodbath', Tories warn... as even left

In its Employment Rights Bill, Labour has also proposed introducing nine-month legal 'probation' periods to address concerns, but the think-tank said this was a 'messy compromise'.

Events

3 w. ago Fifa joins up with trade union to promote ‘safe working conditions’

Five-year deal with Building and Wood Workers’ InternationalBWI has criticised Fifa for giving 2034 World Cup to Saudi ArabiaFifa has announced new measures for promoting “decent and safe working conditions” at its tournaments after agreeing a five-year partnership with trade union the Building and Wood Workers’ International (BWI).The BWI, which has been critical of Fifa’s decision to award the 2034 World Cup to Saudi Arabia, will now partner with world football’s governing body on conducting labour inspections in the Gulf state and elsewhere. The agreement will also incorporate training for workers and their representatives, and the creation of a “time-bound corrective action plan” that will ensure remedy for those workers who are exploited or otherwise impacted in their jobs. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Fifa joins with trade union to promote ‘safe working conditions’

Five-year deal with Building and Wood Workers’ InternationalBWI has criticised Fifa for giving 2034 World Cup to Saudi ArabiaFifa has announced new measures for promoting “decent and safe working conditions” at its tournaments after agreeing a five-year partnership with the Building and Wood Workers’ International trade union.The BWI, which has been critical of Fifa’s decision to award the 2034 World Cup finals tournament to Saudi Arabia, will now partner with world football’s governing body on conducting labour inspections in the Gulf state and elsewhere. The agreement will also incorporate training for workers and their representatives, and the creation of a “time-bound corrective action plan” that will ensure remedy for those workers who are exploited or otherwise impacted in their jobs. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Amazon ‘plans to replace more than half a million workers with robots,’ report says

Company rejects claims it will slash hiring over next decade, despite automation drive

Economics

3 w. ago Cruise worker reveals the 'five brutal truths' about her job

Cruise staff get to travel the world, visit countless dreamy destinations and have an exciting career at sea. One worker has revealed the 'five brutal truths' about the work.

Politics

3 w. ago I Deliver Parcels in Beijing by Hu Anyan review – startling stories of China’s new precarity

The viral blog turned book details the exhausting life of a courier, but something may have been lost in translationFrom the early 2000s until the Covid lockdowns, Hu Anyan was one of China’s vast army of internal migrants, moving between cities in pursuit of work. He did 19 jobs – shop assistant, hotel waiter, petrol attendant and security guard, among other things – in six cities. Although all these jobs were atrociously paid, they still earned him more than the one he tried for two years in the middle of this period: writer. (An 8,000-word story earned him less than 300 yuan – about £30.) Then, during Covid, he wrote a blog about his night shifts in a logistics warehouse, and it went viral. The blog expanded and became I Deliver Parcels in Beijing, which has sold nearly 2m copies in China since being published in 2023, and now appears in Jack Hargreaves’s English translation.The low-paid Chinese worker is at the mercy of an entirely unrestrained market. The jobs Hu does dema...

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4 w. ago Thousands of jobs for Wales pledged under Government clean energy scheme

The UK Government publishes its first ever national plan to recruit workers needed for clean energy, promising 20,000 jobs in Wales

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