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Bullying, harassment and discrimination of Disabled people in the workplace

Disabled workers face persistent and widespread barriers in the workplace, despite longstanding legal protections. Our research findings consistently highlight the systemic nature of discrimination, inaccessibility, and inequality that disabled people encounter throughout their working lives.

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EHRC Code of practice consultation

TUC response to the Code of practice for services, public functions and associations

Equality (Race and Disability) Bill: mandatory ethnicity and disability pay gap reporting consultation

The TUC welcomes the proposal to introduce legislation which will require employers to publish Race and Disability pay gap information. We have seen clear evidence in the first year of gender pay gap reporting of the impact of mandatory reporting of pay data

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Disabled workers' access to reasonable adjustment

TUC Disabled Workers Conference and Disabled Workers Committee have consistently raised concerns regarding the huge barriers disabled workers face when getting into and staying in work. This includes significant difficulties in accessing reasonable adjustments.

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Data intermediaries

TUC response to Department for Science, Innovation and Technology call for evidence, May 2025

TUC submission to Work and Pensions Committee inquiry- Getting Britain Working

We welcome the opportunity to respond to this inquiry, and to share our initial views on the impacts of DWP’s announced changes to disability and health-related benefits for working people across the country. This response focuses on policy changes announced to date. We will engage actively with government as they consult on wider reforms over the period ahead.

UK trade strategy must promote workers' rights and good jobs

Artificial intelligence for creative workers

Our manifesto outlines our values and proposals to address the impact of artificial intelligence (AI) on creative work and workers.

Equality at work: paternity and shared parental leave

While employees in the UK have statutory entitlements to Shared Parental Leave, there are numerous issues with the legislation which the TUC has demonstrated through the course of our research and campaigning. The TUC believes fundamental reform of the system is needed alongside further improvements to other forms of parental leave and pay – including maternity, paternity and adoption, and investment.

Industrial decarbonisation strategy – union priorities

This briefing sets out our recommendations to use the industrial decarbonisation strategy to leverage a rapid and just transition across industry.

Proposal for new mandatory human and labour rights and environmental due diligence legislation

The TUC and unions are campaigning for new legislation that would give organisations greater legal responsibility for preventing labour and human rights abuses and environmental harms in their global value chains. We welcome Labour’s commitment in the National Policy Forum to “assess the best way to prevent environmental harms, modern slavery and human and labour rights abuses in both private and public sector supply chains including effective due diligence rules,” in government.

Adult Social Care Reform: The Cost of Inaction Inquiry

We welcome the Health and Social Care committee’s recognition that longstanding inaction to tackle deep-rooted problems in the social care sector has a cost to workers, care and support service users and their families, the NHS and the economy. We hope this Inquiry will help to further build the case for reform in the sector and support the government in its work to implement its important commitments.

Consultation on creating a modern framework for industrial relations

The TUC warmly welcome this consultation on creating a modern framework for industrial relations and appreciate the opportunity to respond.

TUC response to Strengthening Statutory Sick Pay Consultation

The TUC's response to the government’s consultation on Making Work Pay: Strengthening Statutory Sick Pay.

Application of zero-hours contracts measures to agency workers

TUC response to the government’s consultation on applying zero hours contracts measures to agency workers.

Strengthening remedies against abuse of rules on collective redundancy and fire and rehire

TUC response to Department for Business and Trade consultation.

Supporting workers experiencing miscarriage and pregnancy loss

Pregnancy loss affects a quarter of all pregnancies, many trade union members and workplace reps will have supported someone who has experienced pregnancy loss, and many will have experienced it themselves. The TUC recognises that more needs to be done to support families experiencing pregnancy loss and to close the gap in statutory rights.

Disability pay and employment gaps

The latest TUC report on the disability pay and employment gaps show the persistence of the labour market inequalities that face disabled people.

Black women's experience of sexual harassment in the workplace

The TUC undertook this research in collaboration with Queen Mary University of London in order to create a space for Black women to share their experiences and inform the work we do to tackle sexual harassment in the workplace. As the voice of more than 5.5 million working people, we have an obligation to ensure that our movement is responding to the biggest challenges working people face.

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TUC submission to the Industrial Strategy Green Paper

Good work should be a cornerstone aim of the strategy. The outcomes of the Industrial Strategy will primarily benefit working people where the strategy creates or maintains jobs and where it drives up job quality.

Toilets at work

A report on workers’ experience of toilet access and facilities.

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Report summary: The health and safety effect of night work

This report investigates workers’ experience of night work and the impact it has on their lives. The research included five unions: the Communication Workers Union (CWU), The National Union of Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers (RMT), The Transport Salaried Staffs' Association (TSSA), Equity, and Community.

The health and safety impacts of night working

This report provides a review of the literature on the impact of night and shift work on workers’ health and their families and an analysis of night work premia, based on rates provided by the Labour Research Department. It then sets out research exploring workers’ experience of night work and the impact it has upon their lives, the factors that shape their decision-making about night work, how both organisational and labour market factors and changes shape night work and the measures that employers and unions take to mitigate risk.

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TUC Equalities Campaign Plan 2024 – 2026

Our Equality Campaign Plan provides affiliates with details of the overarching narrative for the work that we do to challenge inequality in the workplace and covers our work on Black workers, women, disabled workers, young workers and LGBT+ workers. The priorities outlined here have been identified by our democratic structures and through our statutory conferences and are set out in the context of the driving aims of the TUC running until 2026.

TUC submission to the Treasury for Autumn Budget 2024

The Autumn Budget should mark a further decisive break from the country’s recent past. Fourteen years of Conservative government has done huge damage to our economy and public finances. The scale of Tory of failure becomes more apparent each day, as the extent of the crisis facing our public finances and our public services is uncovered. This submission sets out the scale of the economic and fiscal challenges the country faces and evidences the need for change.

TUC Equality Audit 2024

The 2024 audit looks at equality bargaining and covers a difficult yet inspiring time for our movement. It comes after the Covid-19 pandemic which exposed structural disadvantage and discrimination in our society and a cost-of-living crisis that disproportionately impacted Black workers, disabled workers and women. We’ve also had hostile attacks from the Conservative government on migrants, disabled people, trans people and other marginalised groups to deflect from the economic chaos they caused.

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Making employment rights work

The new government was elected on a platform that included making the minimum wage a living wage, basic individual rights from day one and expanded family-friendly working. This report sets out a five-point plan to ensure that the enforcement system is able to support the new government’s plans.

Recommendations for the government's Warm Homes retrofit strategy

TUC policy priorities and recommendations for the Warm Homes plan.

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TUC generative AI policy toolkit

The toolkit helps reps and staff dig into the detail of policies introduced by employers around using Generative AI in the workplace, and negotiate policies that could better serve members' interests.

Bullying, harassment and discrimination of LGBT people in the workplace

This research from the TUC provides a powerful and important insight into the experiences of lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans plus (LGBT+) workers of bullying, harassment and discrimination at work.

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