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Small Business, Enterprise and Employment Bill moves to Lords
22 November 2014
The Small Business, Enterprise and Employment Bill has passed its third reading in the House of Commons and will now move to the House of Lords for consideration. Report stage and third reading took place on Wednesday 19 November. A number of amendments were made to the Bill, which passed third reading without a vote.
35.8 million people trapped in modern slavery
18 November 2014
Australian NGO has released the Global Slavery Index, registering the prevalence of modern forms of slavery, such as forced labour, human trafficking, forced marriages, debt bondage and commerical sexual exploitation. The WFF is campaigning for the end of slavery within a generation.
Pay falls for sixth consecutive year
26 November 2014
British workers are facing a sixth year of falling pay, figures from the Office of National Statistics (ONS) have shown. This year wages have risen by 0.1% – the smallest increase since records began 17 years ago. When inflation is taken into account, pay is down 1.6% on 2013.
JRF: A job is no longer a way out of poverty
24 November 2014
A report by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF) reminds us that “the recovery is precarious for people in poverty”.
Failure to offer suitable alternative vacancy to woman on maternity leave not necessarily discriminatory
24 November 2014
Felicia Epstein’s commentary on the case.
Government response to overseas job advertising is published
14 November 2014
A government response to the consultation on prohibiting employment agencies and employment businesses from advertising jobs exclusively in other EEA countries has been published. The response confirms that the government will proceed with introducing the new regulations.
Unpaid internships “a serious and pressing problem for social mobility”
12 November 2014
Almost a third of recent university graduates are working as unpaid interns. This works out at 22,000 at any one time – far higher than the previous government estimate of 15,000.
TUC: only 1 in 40 new jobs are full-time
13 November 2014
The TUC has released research showing that only one in forty jobs created since the recession is full-time.
G20 governments are “not tackling the inequality of wages and rising unemployment”
13 November 2014
As the G20 leaders assemble in Brisbane today (November 13), a survey of Labour 20 (L20) members has found that 56% of G20 policies are ineffective at improving outcomes for working people.
Equal Pay Day 2014
4 November 2014
Today (November 4) is equal pay day – effectively the last day of the year that women are paid for their work, thanks to the gender pay gap.
Living wage increased to £7.85 an hour
4 November 2014
The living wage has gone up by 20p, to £7.85 an hour, and £9.15 in London
PAC condemns Work Programme
6 November 2014
The Public Accounts Committee has today (6 November) published its report on the work programme.
