Since December, Parirs Dixon has been organising fellow couriers to picket popular takeaways in Sheffield in an effort to improve pay. Now the industrial action is spreading to other cities

Economists say a low joblessness rate is not necessarily a sign of a healthy economy

The realities facing the ‘contractors’ are grim. No wonder their union is appealing to the high court, says the Guardian columnist Owen Jones

If you haven’t yet seen this dramatisation lifting the lid on the reality of zero-hours contracts and payday loans, you should – but it’s not an easy watch

33,000 workers in disputes in 2017 – despite worst period of wage growth since 1815