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Zero hour contracts – the power factor!
14 March 2014
On 10th March the Guardian ran a story exposing the huge rise in zero hour contracts. According to the lastest official statistics from the Office for National Statistics, nearly 583,000 employees – more than double the government's estimate – were forced to sign up to the exploitative conditions last year.
Government to consult Parental Leave Regulations draft
14 March 2014
The government has decided to consult the draft, Shared Parental Leave Regulations. This draft will allow parents to share the leave after the birth of a baby in whichever proportions they see fit.
Blacklist the blacklisters!
The Scottish affairs committee has said that any construction firms that blacklist or have not made appropriate amends for past blacklisting should be denied public contracts.
Home Office dishes out £6.5m in bonuses following mass redundancies
31 January 2014
The Home Affairs Committee has published a report on the work of the Permanent Secretary, which showed that the Home Office has paid huge bonuses to its staff despite the government making hundreds of thousands of people redundant due to the ‘financial situation’.
New TUPE regulations come into effect
31 January 2014
The Coalition's new TUPE regulations came into effect today (31 January 2014), weakening protection for workers whose jobs are being transferred to a new employer.
Real wages have been falling since the 1970s and living standards are not about to recover
31 January 2014
Two pieces of research published today (31 January 2014) show that real wages have been falling since Thatcher's era in the 1980s, while weak economic recovery under the Coalition does not mean that living standards will recover just yet.
Labour demand apology from Tory reaction to miners’ strike
30 January 2014
Labour is asking the government to issue an apology on behalf of Margret Thatcher's administration during the 1984-85 miners' strike.
Spending cuts will hit deprived areas hardest
30 January 2014
The Labour party has claimed that the communities who will suffer most from the local government cuts will be the more disadvantaged areas in England. Statistics show that between the years of 2010/11 and 2015/16, the percentage cut in spending will rise ten times in the more deprived communities than the better off ones.
Tories refuse to apologise for plan to disrupt strike with troops
30 January 2014
The Conservative Party has refused to issue an apology on behalf of Margaret Thatcher’s government for its plans to send troops in to break up the miners’ strike and for lying to the public about the scale of pit shutdowns.
Tory wants to minimise effect of Human Rights Charter
30 January 2014
The Tory government wants to establish a clear legal precedent so that the European Union's Charter of Fundamental Rights only has a minimal role in British courts.
