Category: Employment law

UK policy denying visas to children of care workers faces legal challenge

Exclusive: Action by organisation supporting migrants argues new rules are discriminatoryAn organisation that supports migrant workers has launched a legal challenge against the government’s new policy to bar care workers...

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Leisure centres scrap biometric systems to keep tabs on staff amid UK data watchdog clampdown

Firms such as Serco and Virgin Active pull facial recognition and fingerprint scan systems used to monitor staff attendanceDozens of companies including national leisure centre chains are reviewing or pulling facial recognition...

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Nothing has been done to stop repeat of P&O Ferries scandal, unions say

Despite UK government outrage the ‘legal loopholes remain and operator has been let off the hook’, says joint statementUnions have called for proper legal protection for seafarers on the second anniversary of the...

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No 10 insists government remains committed to triple lock, implying state pensions set to rise by 8.5% next year – UK politics live

Labour deputy leader, Angela Rayner, earlier refused to say Labour were committed to keeping triple lockRayner says Labour will update trade union laws to make them fit for the 21st century.The laws affecting union reps and...

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Rishi Sunak says he told China actions to undermine British democracy are ‘completely unacceptable’ – UK politics live

Prime minister says he told Li Qiang, the Chinese prime minister, at G20 that Chinese interference with the work of parliament will ‘never be tolerated’Simon Clarke, who was the levelling up secretary during the Liz...

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Biden and Sunak hold press conference as US president says special relationship in ‘good shape’ – live

US president and UK PM due to speak at around 6.30pm BSTThe North Sea oil and gas industry is in decline, the shadow business minister Seema Malhotra said, as she defended plans to block new drilling licences, a move criticised...

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Biden and Sunak to hold press conference as US president says special relationship in ‘good shape’ – live

US president and UK PM due to speak at around 6.30pm BSTThe North Sea oil and gas industry is in decline, the shadow business minister Seema Malhotra said, as she defended plans to block new drilling licences, a move criticised...

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