Improvements 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...
Read MoreExclusive: Fabian Society says rights of employees should be extended to 4 million who work for themselvesUK politics live – latest updatesLabour should match employees’ entitlements to a string of workplace...
Read MoreCouriers will be moved to cheaper insecure deals after government fails on promise to bring in new employment billRapid grocery delivery firms are preparing to move hundreds of couriers paid by the hour on to insecure...
Read MoreSoaring vacancy rates mean employers need to work to attract and retain staff, but this will require a shift in attitudeA deadly virus arrives from the east and sweeps through western Europe for two years. The pandemic...
Read MoreParty vows same protections for everyone in work, from direct employees to those in gig economyAll workers from direct employees to those in the gig economy would be eligible for sick pay, holiday, parental leave and the minimum...
Read MoreGovernment says it will bring forward more protections amid accusations of double standardsMPs have voted to give ministers formal paid maternity leave for the first time, hailed as an “important and long overdue...
Read MoreMove rushed through in time for attorney general Suella Braverman to keep her post after giving birthThe government is to change the law to give cabinet ministers six months’ maternity leave on full pay, allowing the...
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