Young people set to miss out on £2,400 a year due to “unfair” minimum wage rules
New analysis from the Trades Union Congress (TUC) shows that 18-20 year olds risk being “left hugely out of pocket” ...
Tag: workers rights
UN just slammed the Tories for the SECOND time in a WEEK over human rights breaches
The International Labour Organization (ILO) – the UN workers’ rights watchdog – has sounded the alarm over the UK government's ...
Two years on from the P&O scandal, Mick Lynch slams Tories as ‘failing to punish perpetrators’
Two year ago, shipping firm P&O Ferries sacked nearly 800 of its workers without notice - and replaced them with ...
Sticky floors: only 26% of working-class female professionals have been offered a promotion
New research has shown that just 26% of professional women from working class backgrounds have received a promotion at their ...
The Spring Budget can’t mask new analysis showing 20-year low for public sector pay
New analysis by the Trades Union Congress (TUC) has revealed that public sector pay is lower in real terms than ...
Apparently, a German judge thinks a worker being on time is more important than the climate crisis
A scientist and activist whose bosses sacked him after he refused to travel by plane due to his carbon footprint ...
Unions, lawyers, and rights groups slam Tory ministers’ decision to reintroduce tribunal fees
Nearly 50 organisations including the Trades Union Congress (TUC), Citizens Advice, Joseph Rowntree Foundation, Fawcett Society, Maternity Action, Women’s Budget ...
UK workers put in £26 BILLION of unpaid overtime in 2023. Bosses must be ecstatic – so, take your lunch NOW.
Friday 23 February is ‘Work Your Proper Hours Day’ – when workers are encouraged to take their lunch break and ...
Scientist sacked because he refused to fly home from Papua New Guinea starts his legal battle
A member of activist group Scientist Rebellion has begun a legal challenge against his former employer. It comes after bosses ...
Gender pay gap means women work first two months of the year unpaid – so today is Women’s Pay Day
New Trades Union Congress (TUC) analysis reveals Women’s Pay Day – the day when the average woman stops working for ...
Bosses are leaving most workers stuck on zero-hours contracts for over a year, TUC reveals
The Trades Union Congress (TUC) says a ban on zero-hours contracts is “long overdue”, as new analysis from it reveals ...
Workers fighting for justice take TUC to employment tribunal
The following is an opinion article from Darren Lewis & Grzegorz Lepiarz. On Tuesday 27 February 2024, the Employment Tribunal ...
UK snow: does your boss have a cold-weather policy in place?
With the Met Office issuing yellow and amber warnings for UK snow in parts of north Wales and northern and ...
Another day, another ‘ludicrous’ half-baked electioneering stunt from the desperate Tories
The Conservative Party has launched yet another policy to prop up a mess of its own creation - this time, ...
Nearly 90,000 disabled people are ‘missing’ from tech industry
There are 88,000 chronically ill and disabled people 'missing' from the tech workforce, according to the professional body for IT. ...
Women more than twice as likely as men to miss out on statutory sick pay
New analysis from the Trades Union Congress (TUC) has revealed 1.3 million people do not earn enough to qualify for ...
As workers ate lunch today, CEOs had already earned the equivalent of their annual salary
The median FTSE 100 CEO's earnings for 2024 surpassed the median annual salary for a full-time worker in the UK ...
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