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JRF report shows ‘shockingly high’ number of children in poverty living in working families
The Joseph Rowntree Foundation (2025) UK Poverty Report clearly shows that work doesn’t protect families from poverty.
Parents to receive day one right to neonatal care leave and pay
Thousands of working families with babies in neonatal care will be entitled to additional time off as a day one right
Met Police staff announce two-week strike
PCS general secretary - hardline approach by Met Police managers has been "completely counter-productive"
PCS General Secretary speaks at Employment Rights Event in Westminster
Fran Heathcote raised PCS members' concerns with MPs and called for improvements in draft legislation.
Equity calls for rights-based approach to UK government’s plans to ‘unleash AI’
Equity calls for rights and ethical data use to be at the heart of the approach to ‘turbocharge’ AI adoption
Amazon workers force U-turn on warehouse closure payments
Amazon workers were furious at losing a days pay.
Starmer’s AI bid risks a ‘race to the bottom for workers’
Workers must get a say in how the tech is used in the workplace, unions and experts said
Business and Trade committee takes evidence for employment rights inquiry
Evidence session in its current inquiry Making Work Pay: The Employment Rights Bill takes place in Parliament
Retirement of RMT general secretary Michael Lynch
Lynch was elected general secretary in 2021. He also served two terms as assistant general secretary and two terms on the union’s NEC
Land Registry workers announce indefinite industrial action
PCS union members working for the Land Registry are to take indefinite industrial action after being ordered back to the office for three days a week
McDonalds CEO has “serious questions to answer” over “predatory” use of zero-hours contracts
McDonalds CEO Alistair Macrow faces questions from MPs as new BBC investigation reveals new claims of sexual harassment at fast food chain.
