Leaders claim scaremongering from business figures may cause key legislation to become ‘meaningless’Trades unions are warning Andy Burnham that Labour’s policy on cutting zero-hours contracts risks failing to live up to the...
Read MoreExclusive: Campaigners say millions are missing out on key rights including sick pay and protection against unfair dismissalAndy Burnham is being urged to protect 4 million gig economy workers by prosecuting companies that use...
Read MoreIn 1926, Henry Ford gave his employees both Saturdays and Sundays off – and the two-day chunk of time to party, pray or simply do nothing was born. Now it’s changed beyond recognitionFor 11 years, from 1929 to 1940, the Soviet...
Read MorePM warns extreme heat conditions ‘could be with us fo some time yet’Just 20 staff are working on climate adaptation within the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, the part of government tasked with protecting the...
Read MoreKate Dearden says reforms such as enhanced sick pay simply bring UK into line with other big economiesLabour’s radical workers’ rights reforms have simply put the UK on a “level playing field” with other big economies, the...
Read MorePeer’s comments come as Milburn report is likely to find government has failed to tackle youth unemploymentBusiness live – latest updatesThe boss of Next has sounded the alarm about a “dramatic fall” in the number of entry-level...
Read MoreResearch for TUC analyses link between job quality and economic inactivity, as UK youth unemployment risesYoung people in the UK are more likely to leave their job for health reasons and become economically inactive when they...
Read MoreExclusive: Prospect boss Mike Clancy cites problems retaining technical and digital expertsMinisters must end “barking mad” restraints on civil service pay or risk being unable to recruit the technical and digital specialists it...
Read MoreWork Foundation says key elements of bill promote secure jobs amid fierce business lobbying against legislationEmployers will be forced to offer more secure terms to more than a million workers if the employment bill going...
Read MoreHuge survey reveals employment rights overhaul popular with public despite many not knowing about billKeir Starmer must make the “populist case” for workers’ rights reforms, unions have said, after a new mega-poll suggested the...
Read MoreLords ‘doing bidding of bad bosses’, says TUC, amid growing campaign by business leaders to water down Labour’s plansConservative and Liberal Democrat peers have been accused of trying to block stronger rights for millions of...
Read MoreYolanda Díaz Pérez’s leftwing government has championed employment reform similar to Labour’s proposals – and she tells British business there is nothing to fearSpain’s leftwing deputy prime minister, Yolanda Díaz Pérez, has a...
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