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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.
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.
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.
Hunt: I’ll sack foreign doctors then fine British ones if they try to leave
04 October 2016
Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt has announced a new policy that could serve to lock junior doctors into a highly contested contract that has led to several widespread strikes among clinical staff.
Trade Union Act should be reviewed, says human rights report
A report submitted to the United Nations' Universal Periodic Review of the UK by the British Institute of Human Rights (BIHR) has recommended that the Trade Union Act 2016 is reviewed.
May asks former Labour adviser to conduct worker’s rights inquiry
03 October 2016
Theresa May has hired Matthew Taylor, previously an adviser to Tony Blair, to conduct an inquiry into workers' rights.
Only three employers prosecuted for paying less than minimum wage
29 September 2016
Only three of 700 employers identified as underpaying their workers have been prosecuted in the past two and half years, according to a Guardian report.
Manifesto for Labour Law ‘inspirational to European trade unionists’
28 September 2016The IER's Manifesto for Labour Law was partly borne out of international comparison with Europe's strongest economies, where collective bargaining has served to create more equal and more resilient economies than in the UK.
