The UK Government has announced significant changes to the UK benefits system to address two main issues: the rising number of working-age people leaving the workforce due to ill health and a consequential increase in… Read More »Tackling the causes of working-age ill health
Recent job losses in the North Sea and at the Grangemouth site have highlighted the inadequate measures companies and governments are taking to ensure a Just Transition from fossil fuel industries. In this briefing, we… Read More »A Just Transition?
The new UK Government has given the reform of the UK pension system a high priority. The immediate focus is on pension fund investment to ensure fewer, bigger, better-run pension schemes. While occupational pensions are… Read More »Pension Fund Investment and the Economy
There has recently been a flurry of political interest in devolving immigration powers. In our latest briefing, we examine the case for devolving immigration powers to Scotland and how a devolved system might work. The… Read More »Devolving Immigration Powers
The Jimmy Reid Foundation (JRF) has no view or policy on Brexit, settled or otherwise, because we do not take such positions. We are able, however, to form views and analysis on the particular ramifications of the type of… Read More »Brexit: rights, risks and responsibilities
Workplace relations – a new agenda for progressive change? by Gregor Gall, professor of industrial relations, University of Bradford We are in the midst of unprecedented political turmoil. Fortunately, this has allowed the bringing forward… Read More »‘Quick Note’ on Workplace Relations Published
Better Human Rights Together? The election of 31 Conservatives to the Scottish Parliament creates opportunities for campaigners who oppose the UK Government’s plans to abolish the Human Rights Act and replace it with a Bill… Read More »Better Human Rights Together?
Despite the mantra that tax cuts resolve economic concerns, writes Robin McAlpine, it’s only the rich who ever benefit – Scotsman article from today
Nationalising Scotland’s oil is not a priority – stopping multinationals and their pals in the Treasury fleecing us again in the renewables field as they did in oil is: Robin McAlpine’s article from today’s Scotsman
My Scotsman article – Political leaders and their parties have to be told to stop parroting what the plutocrats want them to say and start doing what the people who elected them told them to