Singer suffers minor injuries after car in which he was passenger crashes on M1, while another man is airlifted to hospitalMusician George Michael has been injured after the car in which he was travelling crashed on the M1 during the evening rush-hour …

Ministers to encourage reporting of bad employers after HMRC success in helping people reclaim nearly £200,000 in unpaid wagesThe government is to increase attempts to crack down on employers abusing national minimum wage laws following successful mov…

US institute that devised questionnaire tells ‘nudge’ unit to stop using it as it failed to be scientifically validatedAn American psychology organisation has told a UK government agency to stop using a personality test on jobseekers because it is a fa…

Ex-Tory leader hits out at graduates ‘too good’ to stack shelves, refusing to back down after ‘workfare’ schemes ruled unlawfulIain Duncan Smith has criticised graduates who consider themselves “too good” to stack supermarket shelves as he vowed not to…

Kate and Gerry McCann call on government to abandon proposal for royal charter and introduce statutory regulationThe press has lost its entitlement to self-regulate and the government’s post-Leveson proposals are a “compromise of a compromise”, the par…

Two women and one man taken into custody in latest chapter of investigation into activities at welfare-to-work companyPolice probing alleged fraud at welfare-to-work firm A4e have arrested three more people.The two women and one man were taken into cus…

Graduate Cait Reilly succeeds in legal challenge to programme under which she was required to work unpaid at discount storeThousands of unemployed people could be entitled to financial rebates totalling millions after judges in the court of appeal decl…

Cait Reilly, who was sent to work for free at Poundland by her Jobcentre, explains why she took the government to courtCait Reilly bats off accusations that she is little more than a “job snob”, as the work and pensions secretary Iain Duncan Smith once…

Freedom from Torture finds 15 failed asylum seekers later won refugee status but Tory minister says torture claims are unprovenFifteen Sri Lankan nationals have claimed they were tortured and subjected to inhuman and degrading treatment after they were…

Court backs Cait Reilly’s claim, with judges ruling that work and pensions secretary acted unlawfully over unpaid workThe government’s employment strategy lies in tatters after judges declared that almost all work-for-your-benefit schemes were unlawful…