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Unemployment on the rise again
17 July 2015
Unemployment has risen for the first time in two years, casting the supposed momentum of the labour market recovery into doubt.
Large firms to be forced to publish gender pay gap
16 July 2015
Firms with over 250 employees will be required to publish the average pay of their male and female employees.
EMERGENCY MOTION REJECTS TRADE UNION BILL
16 July 2015
The Confederation of Shipbuilding & Engineering Union Conference, meeting in Southport on the day the Trade Union Bill was published, passed an emergency motion rejecting the measures contained within the Government’s Trade Union Bill. The motion is reproduced below
Briefing: the Government’s proposed Trade Union Bill
13 July 2015
The proposed Trade Unions Bill, as announced in the recent Queen’s speech (27 May), will reportedly be published this Wednesday. Here, IER and CLASS have put together a Briefing Note on what we think the Bill will contain. Further Briefings will follow once we see the actual content of the Bill.
EAT ruling on sick leave and holiday pay
10 July 2015
An EAT has held that an employee does not have to show that he was unable to take holiday because of sickness for it to be carried forward.
Today’s Tube Strike
9 July 2015
Tube drivers voted overwhelmingly in favour of today’s strike action.
Key Employment Rights briefing
10 July 2015
The Government has published a briefing on key employment rights.
Early Conciliation – one year on
9 July 2015
Acas has published statistics showing the impact of the first year of Early Conciliaiton.
George Osborne’s “Living Wage”
9 July 2015
Osborne has pledged to introduce a “national living wage” for over-25s, which will start at £7.20 an hour next April, and rise to about £9 an hour by 2020.
Mesothelioma Action Day
3 July 2015
Today is Mesothelioma Action Day and Unite are calling for an asbestos eradication law to cut the mesothelioma death toll.
In the Commons this week: Deregulation and the gender pay gap
2 July 2015
Conservative MPs congratulated themselves over deregulation.
