Work & careers
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Our careers expert – and you the readers – help a worker deal with music in the office and come up with ideas on how to survive Brexit with a home study course
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Fourth industrial revolution The résumé is dead: your next click might determine your next job
Tim DunlopThe argument about whether robots will take our jobs is irrelevant: workforce science and data aggregation have already changed how we find work -
Retailers, restaurants and hotels among a record 360 firms named for shortchanging staff by almost £1m
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Letters: I’m genuinely upset about the poorer prospects of younger generations compared to mine, but I’m not going to be the fall guy for it. This baby boomer has paid her dues. Trade union dues
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Letters: The unemployed cannot be expected to have the transport to reach a field 10 miles away
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Letters: Why don’t British people want to take work harvesting crops? Because UK farmers are not offering a living wage
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Founded by two Australians in the US, a new social enterprise matches every item of stationery bought with a donation to an underprivileged child
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Matthew Taylor, in charge of review of modern employment, says improving the quality of work should be a national goal
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Delivery firm scrapped a minimum hourly rate of £8 an hour in January for its self-employed contractors
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The public sector, once a haven of equality, now devalues what disabled people can offer. Yet Damian Green expects it to lead his work revolution
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Servicemen and women to be offered time off to spend with family as part of pilot scheme to modernise armed forces
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Natural lighting or at least LEDs will improve your mood, and there are other positive steps to take to make the office a more world-friendly environment, says Lucy Siegle
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I hired and trained you. I nurtured and developed you. But now I have to tell you your position is being eliminated
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With the help of a new fund, female entrepreneurs are developing apps including a virtual tissue bank for scientists and an online vet service
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Court rejection of workers’ status has knock-on effects for gig economy operators such as Uber and Deliveroo
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- EU referendum and Brexit
- Gig economy
- Business (Australia)
- European Union
- Trade unions
- Immigration and asylum
- Couriers/delivery industry
- Employment law
- Economics
- Women
- Foreign policy
- Pay
- Uber
- Job hunting
- Tax and spending
- Zero-hours contracts
- Social enterprises
- Budget
- UK unemployment and employment statistics
- Women in the boardroom
John McDonnell: We must stop 'Uberisation' of the workplace