15 October 2015 The latest labour market statistics show the unemployment rate is its lowest for seven years, reversing the…
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Employment Law Update 2019 – London
A report on our recent conference covering changes to employment rights in…
Sacked for being pregnant: More nightmare accounts of insecure work
10 March 2017 Hannah Reed, Senior Employment Rights Officer at the TUC, has told the Select Committee for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy that workers are being “sacked on the…
Hotel workers claim exploitation on booming Isle of Skye
23 July 2018 Hotel workers on the Isle of Skye, which is currently experiencing a tourism boom, have complained that they are being denied their employment…
Research shows employment focus should be on quality not just quantity
22 October 2015 Research by Peter Taylor-Gooby finds that “getting people into employment will not on its own ensure decent living standards and reduce…
Ruined Lives: Why trade unionism a dangerous game
08 August 2012 By Sarah Glenister Consecutive governments have failed to outlaw blacklisting – a practice used solely to discriminate against…
Why we need a Right to Food
With one in five food workers going hungry, the UK needs to institute a legal Right to…
Employment Rights Bill Nears Final Stages After Lords Debate Key Amendments
The Bill now returns to the House of Commons for consideration of Lords’…
Govt u-turns on tax increase for self-employed people
15 March 2017 The government has u-turned on its Budget proposal to increase National Insurance Contributions for self-employed…
Cable launches employment review
10 October 2014 Vince Cable has launched a ‘wide-ranging’ employment review to help clarify the employment status of up to a million British…
Status of Workers Bill passes from the Lords to the Commons
Ground-breaking Bill aims to abolish insecure work by replacing the UK’s overcomplicated employment status system with a universal status of…
Industrial Action And Labour’s New Deal
Fourth in a series of blog posts on Labour’s reform agenda in the domain of workers’…




