The UK’s long experiment with a low-rights, low-wage economy is drawing to an end, and employers need to recognise now is not the time for foot-dragging.
Unions have scored an important win against the government’s attacks on trade unions. The High Court has quashed a legal change that ministers made last year that allowed employment agencies to supply workers to replace those on strike.
The deregulatory dreams of Tory extremists have collided with reality, forcing the government to overhaul its much-criticised Retained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Bill.
The government is attempting to rush through Parliament new laws that could undermine workers’ ability to take strike action to defend their pay and conditions.
If a Bill currently being considered by Parliament becomes law, many workers' rights and protections could be swept away at the stroke of midnight on 1 January 2024.
The proposal to allow employers to bring in agency workers to fill in for striking workers, is a shameful outcome for a government that only a few years ago promised to “protect and enhance” workers’ rights.
P&O Ferries’ attempt to bypass employment laws in its dismissal of 800 seafarers is the product of many of the same woeful UK labour rights that allow fire-and-rehire.
Plans to give precedence to domestic law over EU-derived law could have dramatic effects on workers' rights, despite a major court win secured by plumber Gary Smith over holiday pay.
Insecure work soared after the last financial crisis as employers offered many workers only temporary, zero - or short-hours contracts. But more than a decade on since the bank-led crash, policymakers have failed to introduced measures to tackle it.
A screeching U-turn by Uber on wages, pensions and holiday pay is the just the latest stage in the journey to ensure that all work - including in the gig economy - is decent work.
Employers have taken advantage of lockdown and cut-throat “fire-and-rehire” tactics to slash the pay and conditions of one in four workers, according to TUC polling.
You can order your shopping, pay your bills and even vote in many political party ballots online. But when it comes to voting in union elections, the government insists only paper postal ballots will do.
Workers at firms hard hit by the coronavirus lockdown are to continue to get wage subsidies, after the government bowed to pressure from trade unions and others.
The government has announced a mixed bag of reforms to the creaking tribunal system, but only significant investment will ensure working people receive timely access to justice.