Union says new entitlements, part of Employment Rights Act 2025, will help lower-income householdsUp to 9.6 million UK workers are to benefit from the changes to sick pay rules, according to unions. They say the policy has...
Read MoreNASUWT says full entitlement should be increased to 26 weeks and paternity pay also improvedFull maternity pay for teachers across the UK should be increased to 26 weeks to help stem the exodus of women in their 30s from...
Read MoreAaron Horsey says measures in Employment Rights Act will give support ‘at one of most difficult moments imaginable’A father who has fought for a change in the law so that bereaved parents can look after their babies...
Read MoreResearch suggests fewer than one in 60 public sector workers share leave with partners when they have a babyWhy shared parental leave is a monumental dud of a policyExperts have criticised a “lost decade” of progress...
Read MoreExclusive: analysis shows covering part of salaries from first day off can boost productivity and employee retentionBusiness live – latest updatesChanges to sick pay to cover part of workers’ salaries from the first...
Read MoreWorkers earning under £123 a week to get 80% of salary in sick pay, keeping more people off benefitsMore than 1 million of the lowest-paid UK workers are to be guaranteed sick pay worth up to 80% of their weekly salary...
Read MoreImprovements to workers’ rights to include day-one universal sick pay and an end to zero-hours contracts and fire and rehireLabour’s employment rights bill is the biggest step towards enacting one of its key election...
Read MoreTrade union leaders meet ministers for final talks on employment rights bill before unveiling on ThursdayLabour can use its overhaul of workers’ rights to win over disaffected Tory and Reform voters, the TUC has said, as...
Read MoreEmployees have lost out on holiday pay worth £2bn, according to new trade union researchWorkers across Britain have lost out on holiday pay worth £2bn, with more than a million people going without a single day of...
Read MoreAfter his wife died in childbirth, Aaron Horsey found he did not have automatic right to paternity leave A father who was left without the right to parental leave after his wife died in childbirth has won a change to the law in...
Read MoreIn Demos speech, shadow work and pensions secretary takes tough stance on welfare as she lays out plans for youngUnder a Labour government there would be “no option of a life on benefits”, the party has said, as it...
Read MoreUnite and Unison join campaigners urging government to exempt strike days from maternity calculationsThe UK’s two biggest unions have backed calls for a review of the “immoral” system where pregnant workers...
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