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If govt wants older people to stay in work, it needs to improve their rights
03 February 2017
The government yesterday announced a new strategy to "encourage the over 50s to reap the benefits of work" – a phrasing that seems to place responsibility on the unemployed for their own bad luck – at a time when it is systematically undermining the very mechanisms that could help older workers fight for their rights.
Race to the bottom after Brexit is ‘very real fear’, says Fawcett Society
03 February 2017
Britain could be pressured into becoming a low-regulation economy with much weaker workers' rights if action is not taken to protect and build on current employment law.
Sport Direct-style exploitation revealed in yet another high street retailer
02 February 2017
Exploitative conditions have been found at yet another high street retailer - BooHoo - after a Channel 4 Dispatches investigation sent an undercover reporter into the retailer's warehouse.
Govt says workers only “discouraged” not “prevented” from accessing justice
01 February 2017
Despite a reporting a 68% fall in cases between 2013 and 2015, the government insists that workers are not "prevented" from accessing justice, they are only "discouraged".
TUA industrial ballot thresholds to come into force on March 01 2017
27 January 2017
The thresholds on industrial ballots agreed in the Trade Union Act 2016 (TUA) will come into force on March 01 2017.
Govt industrial strategy makes no mention of trade unions
27 January 2017
The government has this week unveiled its new industrial strategy, in which businesses were mentioned 356 times and trade unions were not mentioned at all.
50 Tory backbenchers support new union busting bill
23 January 2017
Tory MP Chris Philp is set to set forth further anti-trade union measure in a private members’ bill tomorrow, which has been backed by 50 of his peers.
UK textile workers paid £3 an hour, investigation reveals
23 January 2017
A new Dispatches investigation by Channel 4, which will be aired tonight, has revealed that textiles workers in the UK are illegally being paid just £3 per hour.
Proposed ET reform ‘just more red tape that does nothing to help access to justice’
On 05 December last year, the government released a consultation on proposed reforms to employment tribunals that it claimed would make the system more "just", "proportionate" and "accessible".
Westminster has “ideological determination to attack the rights of organised labour”, says Welsh Minister
20 January 2017
Cabinet Secretary for Finance and Local Govermment in Wales, Mark Drakeford, yesterday told the Welsh Assembly that Westminster has an "ideological determination to attack the rights of organised labour".
New TUA guidance released
20 January 2017
The government has this week released new guidance on how the Trade Union Act 2016 will be applied to public service workers.
Variable hours workers given short notice on shifts they can’t turn down, research shows
19 January 2017
New research from the Citizen's Advice Bureau (CAB) has shown a fifth of employers with staff on variable-hours contracts are given less than 48 hours notice of their shifts, and 22% said workers were not permitted to turn down shifts they were offered.
