Work and Pensions Committee launches attack on government's flagship welfare-to-work programme.

ONS data shows impact of high inflation and paltry wage growth on household disposable income.

Security firm under fire after death of Palestinian inmate reconfirms pull-out from prison and police HQ deals.

ONS labour market data shows worsening picture for both employed and unemployed.

International Monetary Fund predicts just 0.7 percent growth for UK economy in 2013.

Survey of firms by British Chambers of Commerce shows 64 percent think Cameron right to push for new terms on EU.

Chartered Management Institute report reveals 15.8 percent pay package leap for chief executives as most others see real terms pay cut.

Lloyds TSB Private Banking report shows soaring UK household wealth but top 10% 22 times better off than bottom half.

ONS reports 2.1 percent month-on-month jump in UK retail sales volumes following months of damp high street activity.

Britain's Chancellor George Osborne insists his austerity measures are working, despite being forced to slash growth forecast by half as he delivered his budget to the parliament on Wednesday (March 20th).

The beer duty cut was a tiny shaft of sunlight peeping through the dark clouds of George Osborne's forecast, says Shane Croucher.

Live coverage of Chancellor George Osborne's 2013 Budget speech where he will also scrap beer duty escalator.

Positive employment data ahead of Chancellor George Osborne's speech, though wage growth figues show continued "cut in the real value of pay" says ONS.

Chancellor's Budget reveals £2.5bn cuts from departmental spending to boost infrastructure investment.

TUC research shows lowest paid still worse off despite rising personal allowance, which is ten times cheaper for George Osborne than cutting VAT.

Public Accounts Committee report launches scathing attack on government's flagship welfare-to-work programme.

ONS data shows self-employed work longer hours, tend to be older, and are predominantly male.

Number of employed people wanting more hours at work shoots up 47.3 percent says Office for National Statistics.

Labour Party leader Ed Miliband is booed and cheered by thousands of protesters in Hyde Park.

Workers' co-op says of T-shirt bearing image of Thatcher's grave: What goes around, comes around.

After RBS takeover, TUC wants a state investment bank which can issue bonds and fund small businesses.

George Osborne's pledge to support lower and middle wage earners fails to wash with unions.

Unions want chancellor to reverse austerity measures and support investment to end youth unemployment crisis.

Live coverage of the strikes across Britain, as two million public sector workers walk out in a pensions dispute.

Tensions between the government and unions are at boiling point ahead of the November 30 strikes.

Around two million public sector workers across Britain will down tools on November 30 in some of the biggest industrial action since the 1926 general strike - all taking part in 200 events across the country listed on the False Economy website.

The UK jobs front continues to be grim, even as a Trades Union Congress (TUC) report, published on Tuesday, has shown that unemployment figures rose 97 percent in local council areas over the past year.

Britain's public services will be brought to a standstill on Nov. 30, as the country's largest union, UNISON, votes in favour of strike action against public sector pension reforms.

FTSE 100 directors saw a pay increase of 49 per cent over the last year, averaging a take-home pay packet of just under £2.7 million.

Former Conservative Chancelleor Nigel Lawson is said to have declared that the National Health Service is the closest thing the British have to a religion, a statement which seems to be proved truer by the day by the Trades Union Congress.