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Pay growth set to weaken and more workers to earn legal minimums, report warns
12 October 2016
Wage growth is set to falter following the vote to leave the EU, think tank the Resolution Foundation has warned.
Govt’s ‘red tape cuts’ end in net cost of £140m to businesses
12 October 2016
Ironically, it was the addition of a regulation, not the cutting of red tape, that made the vast majority of savings for businesses this year, according to a parliamentary select committee report. And cutting regulation has actually cost, rather than saved, money.
Human rights should not depend on businesses’ consent, IER tells UN
11 October 2016
Academics writing on behalf the Institute of Employment Rights have advised the United Nations Human Rights Council that lawmakers should not wait for the consent of business to impose international human rights legislation.
Holiday pay must reflect commission, Court of Appeal rules
11 October 2016
The Court of Appeal has decreed in favour of UNISON's argument that workers who normally earn commission should not lose this income during periods of annual leave.
English teachers: longer hours, less pay, more stress & less training than overseas peers
10 October 2016
Teachers in England put in longer hours than their peers in the vast majority of other OECD countries for less pay, but this does not go towards have extra time with students.
“Independent” rail safety board briefs on profitability rather than safety
10 October 2016
The Rail Safety and Standards Board (RSSB), which is purported to be an “independent” watchdog, has a rail boss as a member and makes recommendations based on profitability rather than safety, it has been revealed.
Work stress increases across UK, survey reveals
10 October 2016
Stress levels have risen across the economy, a TUC study has revealed today, and is now at the top of health and safety officers' list of workplace hazards.
UKIP/Tory members find May’s govt ‘too right wing’
10 October 2016
There "seems as if there's a darkness at the heart of Theresa May's government"; policies on migrant workers go "too far".
These are the words of a leading Tory Party Adviser and a UKIP MEP respectively.
More women join civil service, yet gender pay gap rises
07 October 2016
The latest figures from the Office for National Statistics shows that more women work in the civil service than men, and that the female share of the workforce is increasing, but despite this the gender pay gap in the sector appears to have risen above the national average.
UK productivity gap stuck at record widest point, driven by lower paid jobs and lack of work hours
06 October 2016
The productivity gap between the UK and the rest of the G7 remains at its widest on record, according to the latest Office for National Statistics report.
Tories blame migrants for workers’ struggles they helped to create
05 October 2016
Leading Tory MPs have taken a strong line against migrant workers at this year's Conservative Party conference, a direction of policy that has not only been criticised for xenophobic undertones and illogicity, but is all the more astounding in light of a new report implicating the language of Tory politicians in racist attacks.
One in ten has been disciplined or dismissed for mental ill health, research shows
04 October 2016
One in ten employees who have experienced poor mental health were subject to disciplinary action and even dismissal from the workplace as a result, new research shows.
