Learning about inequality the hard way
Tuesday, August 18th, 2009 by Clare Cochrane Posted in Equality, UK poverty | No Comments »Children in Scotland started back to school this week, and children in England and Wales are into their last few weeks of holidays. There’s a sense of sadness in the air – at the ending of summer, at the thought ...
Are you interested in helping us fight poverty in the UK – Internship opportunity with Oxfam’s UK poverty team
Wednesday, August 12th, 2009 by Joshua Fenton-Glynn Posted in UK poverty | 1 Comment »We are currently recruiting for a new intern to work with Oxfam’s UK poverty, policy and communications team. They will have responsibility for developing our blog, twitter feed and other social networking presence and to help our policy officers with ...
No one chooses to pay themselves £2 an hour
Tuesday, August 4th, 2009 by Krisnah Poinasamy Posted in Livelihoods | 1 Comment »On Friday, The Times revealed that hotel cleaners in some of London's top hotels are paid less than half the minimum wage to service rooms that cost up to £400 a night. The story supports Oxfam's findings in Turning the ...
We must work together to stop the exploitation of temporary workers
Tuesday, August 4th, 2009 by Dan Rees Posted in Labour rights | No Comments »Oxfam is calling on the government to extend the powers of the Gangmaster Licensing Authority (GLA) beyond agriculture to cover agency workers in the construction, hospitality and care industries. The case for doing so is obvious. The exploitation of temporary, mainly ...
People living in poverty are being ripped-off by extortionate interest rates
Tuesday, August 4th, 2009 by Martin Narey Posted in Livelihoods | 2 Comments »Provident Financial figures have revealed that the doorstep lender has made a profit of £52 million from the UK's poorest families in the first half of 2009 - up 3.6 per cent on the same time last year. This is ...
