New research suggests long stints of unemployment can have long-term effects on personality traits, changes that may become near-permanent...

In its normal state, capitalism has become an obsolete oppressive system that ought to be got rid off. But during periods of economic cr...

Glasgow has the highest percentage of workless households of any area in the UK, new figures have shown. Information from the Office of Nat...

 Morrisons, the supermarket chain, advertised 250 vacancies at a new store in Kirkcaldy. Jobseekers were charged 21p a supermarket jobs hot...

Unemployment may be falling in Scotland in recent months but there is an ongoing increase in the number of people in part-time work and in ...

A report for the Scotland Institute – The Changing Face Of Youth Unemployment In Scotland 1992 To 2012 – found that over the past two deca...

A boy born in the most deprived 10 per cent of Scotland would have a life expectancy of just 68. That is eight years younger than the natio...

Workers living on state benefits are well aware, it is quite impossible to put a little by for a rainy day, for every day is forecast as a ...

Professor David Bell, an economic expert, warned MSPs that soaring numbers of Scots have been forced into “under-employment”  and a seismic...

According to the TUC, about 270,000, or more than one in 10, Scottish workers are underemployed. That represents a 39% jump in the underem...

Some 26 of 30 countries covered by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development have shown a falling labor share of national i...

Just four years after the worst shock to the economy since the Great Recession, U.S. corporate profits are stronger than ever. In the ...

All working-age benefits, including tax credits and child benefit, will only go up by 1% a year – less than half the rate of inflation – fo...

One in ten working-age people in Scotland will be on the dole by the end of the year, according to a new report. Professor Brian Ashcroft ,...

Sick and disabled Scots and their families will lose out under UK Government benefit reforms, according to new figures published by Citize...

It was a badge used by the SS guards to mark prisoners as “workshy” in Nazi concentration camps. Now the “black triangle” symbol has been ad...

Under the new rules, claimants face a tougher medical test, existing claimants are being re-tested, there are new requirements to engage in ...

While Scotland’s official unemployment rate is 7.7%, combined with people seen as “economically inactive” and “underemployed” , then what i...

Poverty trap for children as fifth of Scottish families jobless. The number of under-16s living in households without adults in employment r...

Women now make up almost one-third of Scotland’s unemployed. The number of females out of work north of the Border has soared 20% in the pa...