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- Published in The Guardian - 18 May 2018
Labour MP Frank Field says workers should be protected by default, and only regarded as self-employed when companies provide proof that they are
- Published in Wirral Globe - 18 May 2018
David Jago's proposal is among a series of options in a review of its policy to charge staff £10 to park there after a Globe petition backed by almost 10,000 readers. It was handed over to his predecessor David Allison by Birkenhead MP Frank Field in October.
- Published in The i - 17 May 2018
Today our Work and Pensions committee has published a report on employment support for carers. There are 6.5 million unpaid carers in the UK and over half are trying desperately to juggle their caring role with paid employment. It’s tough and certain policies make it even harder.
- Published in The Times - 16 May 2018
Same old story. Same old greed. Today our select committees publish our joint report into the collapse of Carillion. It is the culmination of months of public hearings and consideration of mountains of minutes and company papers. That evidence pointed overwhelmingly to our damning assessment of the conduct of Carillion’s directors.
- Published in Liverpool Echo - 16 May 2018
Damning new report reveals the 'relentless dash for cash' that left city's £335m hospital as a 'creaking monument to greed'
- Published in Huffington Post - 16 May 2018
Frank Field, chairman of the Work and Pensions Committee, said: “A board of directors too busy stuffing their mouths with gold to show any concern for the welfare of their workforce or their pensioners.
- Published in Daily Mirror - 14 May 2018
EXCLUSIVE: MPs launched a probe tonight into the leaked Atos policy which they fear is an “incentive to ride roughshod over claimants”
- Published in The Sunday Times - 13 May 2018
The government’s green paper on social care must form the basis of a longer-term funding settlement for the welfare state: a “strategic welfare review”, drawing lessons from the established strategic defence review.
- Published in The Guardian - 08 May 2018
The aim of the bill I am drafting with Sir Nicholas SOAMES is to place the abolition of long-term unemployment at the heart of a post-Brexit reform agenda. It would do so by introducing a new duty under which the government guarantees six months’ paid work in the private, voluntary or public sector, for people who either have joined or are at risk of joining the ranks of the long-term unemployed.
- Published in Daily Mirror - 08 May 2018
The Universal Credit scheme has become an "agent of destitution", Labour MP Frank Field warns today.