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  Staff who fall ill on holiday entitled to further paid leave, court rules

  21 Jun 2012: European court of justice ruling aims to ensure EU workers enjoy their legal right to a 'period of relaxation and leisure'

• Politics Weekly podcast: Breadline Britain – does work pay?

  Audio (32min 26sec), 21 Jun 2012:

  Jonathan Freedland, Polly Toynbee and Matthew Oakley discuss the growing problem of in-work poverty and the political implications of an ever-squeezed middle class. Plus Ian Traynor on the latest news from Europe

• Life on the economic precipice

  20 Jun 2012: Letters: At present, 58% of children living in poverty live in households where at least one adult works and the number is rising

• What Cherie Booth doesn't understand about 'yummy mummies'

  20 Jun 2012: I gave up work to look after my son, not to drink expensive coffee or betray feminism

• Inspired by Mad Men: McDonald's Olympic uniform

  20 Jun 2012:

  Out goes the muddy chocolate look to be replaced by mustard and gherkin green, with aprons made from recycled plastic. What do you think of the fast food chain's new uniform?

• Vince Cable's pay reforms are only a first step

  20 Jun 2012: Deborah Hargreaves: Though Cable wants to give shareholders greater power to tackle top pay, he has been nobbled by company bosses

• Jobcentre bosses warn of suicide risk among benefit claimants

  20 Jun 2012:

  An internal email sent by senior managers warns that ill-handling of benefit changes could have 'profound results' for vulnerable claimants
  • Read the memo here

• Unemployment benefit claimants constituency by constituency: full data

  20 Jun 2012:

  UK unemployment has dropped by 51,000. These are the claimant numbers in each parliamentary constituency. Get them where you live

• Paid vacation and productivity: our readers respond

  19 Jun 2012:

  We asked you to share your experience about vacation time and what you think about its effect on productivity in your country

• Breadline Britain day two: hungry school kids and 'cliff edge' poverty

  19 Jun 2012:

  Austerity: we're looking at the rise in the numbers of children arriving at school hungry

• What's the best way to lose your job?

  19 Jun 2012: Open thread: Is a voluntary fast-track settlement to losing your job 'much better than being sacked'? Let us know your thoughts on being dismissed

• Breadline Britain: Nicola Probert and Tony Hodge, Bristol

  18 Jun 2012:

  'It's not just the lack of work: it's terrifying how fast the cost of living is going up'

• Breadline Britain: Danielle Michalitsianos, north-east London

  18 Jun 2012:

  'How can society have got to a place where a woman with a decent job struggles to feed her children?'

• The hidden poor – in work but sinking after years without pay rises

  18 Jun 2012:

  Teachers, civil servants … this is not 'squeezed middle' but low pay households who will bear £5bn of coalition spending cuts

• Millions of working families one push from penury, Guardian research finds

  18 Jun 2012: Findings that 2.2m children live in households on economic cliff-edge challenge coalition claim people are better off in work

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