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GFTU launches ‘Empowering Workers: A Trade Union Certificate in Labour Law’
The course follows a new approach to labour law and its history contextualised in the struggle between organised labour and capital.
Turning up the heat on workplace safety – lessons from the TUC’s week of action
Report on the TUC’s Inspections Week of Action on Workplace Temperatures - by Shelly Asquith
Unions & women’s groups hail flagship workers’ rights bill
Employment Rights Bill described as a "significant step forward for equality at work”
Research exposes structural exploitation of migrant workers in UK domestic and food delivery sectors
Report documents the lived experiences of migrant workers experiencing legal vulnerability in the UK’s food delivery and domestic work sectors
Unions launch “week of action” to keep workers safe in hot weather as scorching summer continues
Over 1,000 workplace reps will take action to protect workers from extreme heat.
Tories and Lib Dems vote down new workers’ rights to help make work more secure.
Usdaw calls on the Government to reverse the Lords’ changes.
Shocking survey reveals extent of poverty and pressure faced by Metro cleaners
A new RMT survey of Tyne and Wear Metro cleaners has laid bare the devastating impact of outsourcing
Government announces expansion of rights to bereavement leave for those who experience pregnancy loss.
New amendment to the Employment Rights Bill will expand scope of bereavement leave rights
Government Review of Parental Leave Launched
Review will look at all types of leave – including maternity, paternity and shared parental leave.
NAHT welcomes trust decision not to proceed with controversial pension plan.
School leaders’ union has welcomed announcement by the country’s largest multi academy trust that it will not implement controversial pension proposal
