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 ...
Tag: workers rights
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 ...
A minute’s silence is being held for a worker killed in Leytonstone, London
A minute’s silence will be held at 11am on Thursday 21 December at the building site in Pevensey Rd, Leytonstone ...
Fat cat bosses are still earning grossly higher wages than workers – even during the cost of living crisis
New research published on Monday 18 December by the High Pay Centre think tank, funded by the abrdn Financial Fairness ...
Covid Inquiry: Sunak “brutally” abandoned millions and left them exposed to the pandemic
The Trades Union Congress (TUC) has slammed Rishi Sunak after his 'evidence' to the Covid Inquiry. The union body said ...
53% of employees end up working when they’re supposed to be off
More than half (53%) of people have had to work while taking time off in the past 12 months, according ...
Three in four young people are not being protected by employment rights
A new Trades Union Congress (TUC) report published on Thursday 30 November reveals that nearly three-quarters (72%) of young people ...
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