Newly released welfare figures show Glasgow has the highest number of incapacity benefit claimants in the UK.
Economics, government & business
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The government is now the biggest employer of freelance IT staff in the UK.A survey of 2,500 freelance IT staff...
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GPs could be offered cash incentives for signing fewer people off work.
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The government is drawing up controversial plans to switch work overseas, according to a leaked internal document.
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HR staff at electrical chains Dixons and Currys could face the axe after its owner DSG said it is to cut office jobs as part of a £20m savings drive
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The NHS Agenda for Change programme has been implemented for more than 90% of employees.
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Anyone convicted or cautioned for a sex offence against a child will be banned from teaching under a tightening of the rules
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The university lecturers' union has condemned the growing pay gap between college top brass and teaching staff.
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UK slips back in European productivity stakes, as US romps ahead
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The proportion of IT contractors working in the public sector has doubled to 27% in the past two years
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The number of people out of work in the UK rose by 111,000 to 1.53 million in the three months to November
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The government will invite employers to get involved in the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games at a summit on 24 January.
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HM Revenue and Customs has apologised to 10,000 employers after fining them at least £400 each by mistake because of a basic flaw in the design of automatic IT systems
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The government has reportedly scrapped a ground-breaking scheme designed to get more women to return to work in the NHS
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Five thousand members of the Amicus union employed in the papermaking industry are to be balloted on an above-inflation pay offer