Roy Rickhuss

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

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General Secretary - Community

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Roy Rickhuss is General Secretary of Community. He became General Secretary Elect on 20 September 2013. In 2018, Roy was elected unopposed as General Secretary of Community for a second time.

Born and brought up in Wolverhampton, Roy first joined the ISTC, one of Community's founding unions, when he started working in a steel tube rolling mill in Wolverhampton in 1979.

Roy joined the ISTC, a founder union of Community, when he started work at Monmore Tubes in Wolverhampton in 1979. In 2004, the National Executive Council appointed Roy as Assistant General Secretary of the ISTC. Roy represents Community on the Labour Party's National Constitutional Committee and sits on the Finance and General Purposes Committee of the General Federation of Trade Unions. He is a member of the Textiles, Leather and Footwear social dialogue committees, Semta (the UK sector skills council for manufacturing) Metals Sector Strategy Group and UK Steel Council.

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