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Analysis: How About a Sick Pay System That Doesn’t Make People Sicker?

Charlie Hertzog Young

By forcing people to work through illness, our inadequate sick pay system is a tool of domination, writes Charlie Hertzog Young. Let’s replace it with one that puts people before profit.

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Opinion: This Isn’t Just About Universal Credit – Our Entire Benefits System Is a Joke

Andrew Fisher

While the campaign to cancel the £20 cut to Universal Credit is welcome, we risk atomising our struggle against a broken system, argues Andrew Fisher.

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Opinion: I’m a Care Worker and I’m on Strike – Here’s Why

Andrene

After months of failed negotiations with management, workers at SAGE care home in Golders Green, north London, are going on strike this weekend. Here, one carer sets out what she's fighting for: not just her colleagues and residents, but the entire care industry.

Coronavirus Shows How the Government Fails Precarious Workers

Beth Perkin and Charlotte England

The government’s new job retention measures have received widespread praise, despite ignoring the needs of millions of vulnerable workers on insecure contracts who are exempt from the benefit. Novara spoke to three workers about how their lives and livelihoods are being impacted.

7 Pandemic Demands to Make Sure Everyone Is Protected

Flannán Shell

With the government consistently failing to offer a meaningful response, Flannán Shell presents a list of demands to ensure everyone, no matter their situation, is protected in the face of the Coronavirus pandemic.

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Analysis: How About a Sick Pay System That Doesn’t Make People Sicker?

Charlie Hertzog Young

Opinion: I’m a Care Worker and I’m on Strike – Here’s Why

Andrene

Coronavirus Shows How the Government Fails Precarious Workers

Beth Perkin and Charlotte England

7 Pandemic Demands to Make Sure Everyone Is Protected

Flannán Shell

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Tag: sick pay

Analysis: How About a Sick Pay System That Doesn’t Make People Sicker?

Charlie Hertzog Young

Opinion: This Isn’t Just About Universal Credit – Our Entire Benefits System Is a Joke

Andrew Fisher

Opinion: I’m a Care Worker and I’m on Strike – Here’s Why

Andrene

Coronavirus Shows How the Government Fails Precarious Workers

Beth Perkin and Charlotte England

7 Pandemic Demands to Make Sure Everyone Is Protected

Flannán Shell

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