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Employment Rights Act

The Employment Rights Act introduces major reforms to UK employment law, with changes being implemented in stages from December 2025 through to 2027.

Employment Rights Act

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Our campaigns

Every day, we campaign for more and better jobs, and a more equal, more prosperous country. Join us.

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Our rights at work are under attack! #StopTheSteal

Reform UK has pledged to rip up legal protections for workers and renters.

We achieve more when we work together. Working people can change things - and we already have. We won these rights because we stood together and changed the rules. We organised. We fought. And we won. That same power still exists today.

Unions Make Work Pay

Unions have been campaigning for years to push the government to deliver higher pay and stronger workers’ rights. The government has now introduced new workers' rights laws through the Employment Rights Bill. The plan to make work pay was developed with unions and is the biggest upgrade of workers’ rights in a generation.

Trade unions must join forces with community organisations and other social movements to set our alternative to the politics of hate, rooted in a society that is antiracist and inclusive for all and an economy that rewards work not wealth.

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Futureproofing manufacturing

The TUC futureproofing project is designed to assist unions in protecting manufacturing jobs in high carbon industries. The manufacturing sector has seen the loss of over a million unionised jobs since the turn of the century and has been starved of investment.

Artificial Intelligence (AI)

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is transforming the way we work and, alongside boosting productivity, offers an opportunity to improve working lives. The TUC believes we are now at a crucial moment in the AI-driven technological workplace revolution.

Tackling and preventing sexual harassment

Tackling and preventing sexual harassment in all workplaces, including our own, is a priority for the TUC and is key to our aim of growing and diversifying our movement. To effectively challenge sexual harassment, we must challenge the cultures that enable it through practical and proactive action.

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Year of Trade Union Climate Action

Workers everywhere are at fighting for action to tackle climate change, organising to futureproof at-risk jobs, mobilising to protect vulnerable communities here and abroad, and sweating for a low-carbon economy that works for workers.

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Covid-19 Inquiry

The UK Covid-19 Inquiry (the Inquiry) was established in June 2022, with the aim of examining preparations and the response to the pandemic in England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland, as well as learning lessons for the future.

Our Work Matters

The Our Work Matters is a collaborative joint union campaign led by members of trade unions who represent outsourced workers and supported by the TUC.

Stand in solidarity with the people of Ukraine

The TUC condemns the illegal invasion of a sovereign nation and calls for Russia to respect Ukrainian territorial integrity. We join the global union movement in calling for peace and urge all governments to reach a negotiated solution through diplomacy.

Winning flex for all

Four out of five workers in Britain want flexible working, yet too many are missing out. The Government must ensure all workers have stronger legal rights to flexibility.

Guarantee decent sick pay for every worker #SickPayForAll

At a time of skyrocketing cases, fixing statutory sick pay can prevent the spread of the virus and ensure millions can get paid to quarantine safely at home. Everyone has the right to decent sick pay.

Sexual harassment has no place in the workplace #ThisIsNotWorking

We need a new law to prevent sexual harassment in the workplace. A legal duty requiring employers to take all reasonable steps to protect workers from sexual harassment and victimisation.

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