In the weeks and months following Labour’s defeat in the 2023 election, much was made of Hipkins’ fate as leader and the potential for the party to follow the example of previous caucus’ of ...

Not just that, this tide of apparent job creation has managed to push the female labour force participation rate up since 2017-18, reversing the earlier downward trends. PREMIUM A labourer cleans ...

Ramona Attard, the former Labour Party president, is to be co-opted to parliament, the party said in a statement on Tuesday. Attard’s nomination put forward by Prime Minister Robert Abela was approved ...

Labour MPs have voted to hit grieving families of military personnel with inheritance tax for the first time as part of Rachel Reeves’ raid. Death in service payments – lump sums given to the ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Britain’s Labour government was always going to struggle to balance its pledge to “make work pay” by ...

Payrolled employees fell by 11,000 (0.0%) over the quarter but rose by 134,000 (0.4%) over the year, when looking at September to November 2024. This is the period comparable with our Labour Force ...

Labour Force Survey (LFS) estimates have been affected by increased volatility, resulting from smaller achieved sample sizes, meaning that estimates of change should be treated with additional caution ...

The newly launched labour migration policy will only be effective if the labour market is strengthened through a reduction in public sector employment, more incentives for upskilling and reskilling, ...

Between birthdays, retirements and holidays -- most of us plan at least one party a year. So with Party City closing stores, some shoppers may wonder about their best options for finding balloons ...

The Malta Labour Migration Policy is being launched during a period in which Malta must make very important decisions about its future. It is no secret that the performance of the Maltese economy ...

Prime Minister Keir Starmer is coming under pressure from members on the right of Labour to keep its seven suspended MPs out of the party. The MPs lost the Labour whip after voting for a Scottish ...

Lord Maurice Glasman is a political theorist, social commentator and author. He joined the Labour Party in the 1970s and is known for coining the term ‘Blue Labour’, an opposition to New ...