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Council spending on agency staff expected to rise by nearly £1m

Town Hall revises forecasts after health and environment costs fuel temporary recruitment drive

Author: Hackney Citizen

'Full support': Opposition councillors back Town Hall's green jobs drive - but stress need for extra cash

Green councillors welcome Town Hall's target to help 60 people find jobs in next year

Author: Hackney Citizen

'Full support': Opposition councillors back Town Hall's green jobs drive - but stress need for extra cash

Almost one in six jobs advertised in Hackney pay below living wage, report shows

Findings from London Poverty Profile reveal 16 per cent of employers pay less than the recommended rate

Author: Hackney Citizen

Hackney caregivers praise ‘empowering' council-backed sewing scheme

Kundakala's 'Make and Mend' programme aims to support women in gaining financial independence

Author: Hackney Citizen

Hackney caregivers praise ‘empowering' council-backed sewing scheme

Hackney Council still has 'no plans' to bring in four-day working week

Town Hall unmoved as government drops objection to practice

Author: Hackney Citizen

Hackney Council rejects Green bid for four-day working week

Pressure from central government cited as one of the reasons for rejection

Author: Darryl Chamberlain

Young people who are ‘up for a challenge’ invited to join fire cadets programme in Shoreditch

Sixteen spots still available on training scheme – with many graduates going on to join the fire service

Author: Lizzie McAllister

Young people who are ‘up for a challenge’ invited to join fire cadets programme in Shoreditch

Hackney residents get a LIFT with new £7m technology training scheme

Town Hall partners up with three other London boroughs to help local people find jobs in ‘exciting’ sector

Author: Julia Gregory, Local Democracy Reporter

Hackney residents get a LIFT with new £7m technology training scheme

Cllr Carole Williams: ‘Some residents are out of a job they’ve been doing for 20 years’

Hackney’s employment and skills boss on what is being done to help locals find work and training amid the pandemic and into the future

Author: Hackney Citizen

Cllr Carole Williams: ‘Some residents are out of a job they’ve been doing for 20 years’

Coronavirus: ‘It’s not just the health inequities of people of colour that should be up for debate’

The disproportionate number of Covid deaths among the BAME population ‘underscores the inescapable extent of inequality in modern Britain’, writes Tamsin Ssembajjo Quigley

Author: Tamsin Ssembajjo Quigley

Coronavirus: ‘It’s not just the health inequities of people of colour that should be up for debate’

‘Disabilities should never be a barrier to employment’: Eight youngsters begin internships at Town Hall

The council’s Project Search scheme will this year see young people take up placements in a range of its own departments

Author: Hackney Citizen

‘Disabilities should never be a barrier to employment’: Eight youngsters begin internships at Town Hall

Town Hall ‘keenly aware’ of ethnicity pay inequalities – as figures on gender celebrated

Employment chief commits to ‘practical action’ to address pay disparities and under-representation

Author: Ed Sheridan, Local Democracy Reporter

Town Hall ‘keenly aware’ of ethnicity pay inequalities – as figures on gender celebrated