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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.

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Artificial intelligence, business and the future of the workforce

The rapid adoption of AI in the workplace sits at the heart of our core mission to protect and advance the interests of working people. As AI reshapes tasks, job roles, pay structures and working conditions across virtually every sector of the economy, the TUC has both the representational mandate and the practical expertise – drawn from our member unions operating across diverse industries – to speak to the real-world impacts these technologies are having on workers.

Lessons from education unions building power on AI

In partnership with nine unions, Connected by Data and the TUC worked across 7 months on an ‘action learning’ programme to test how to catalyse the movement’s capacity to understand, negotiate and advocate on AI from worker’s perspectives.

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Building a pro-worker AI innovation strategy

A pro-worker AI innovation strategy for the UK should use every lever to shape technology towards good jobs, resilient public services and to drive socially useful innovation – for now and the future, at home and abroad.

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Artificial Intelligence (Regulation and Employment Rights) Bill

This paper sets out the background to the TUC Artificial Intelligence (Employment and Regulation) Bill, the multi-stakeholder process behind the drafting, why the Bill is needed, and how it could improve the rights of working people.  

The AI Bill Project

The TUC has been conducting a four-year project on the use of AI in the employment relationship, assisted by a trade union working group (The TUC AI Working Group).

A snapshot of workers in Wales’ understanding and experience of AI

In this report, we give a snapshot insight into workers in Wales’ current experience of AI. This is intended to inform the union response to AI, and future actions by the Welsh Government and wider partners.

A snapshot of workers in Wales’ understanding and experience of AI

Negotiating the Future of Work: Automation and New Technology

This report highlights the importance of supporting workers to access new skills and embed good practice by negotiating with employers. Reps can use this report to start these conversations with your employers and colleagues to realise the ambition of a just transition in Wales and address the big changes facing workers today.

Dignity at work and the AI revolution

The TUC believes we are now at a crucial moment in the AI-driven technological workplace revolution. In this manifesto, we highlight the values we should all adopt to make sure that technology at work is for the benefit of everyone, and to reassert the importance of human agency in the face of technological control. Work is a huge part of all our lives. It matters to all of us that we get this technological revolution right.

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Technology managing people - the legal implications

AI law consultancy present a report to the TUC on the legal implications of Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems in the post-pandemic workplace. To be read in conjunction with the TUC’s own paper published in the Autumn of 2020 called “Technology managing people: The Worker Experience” (the “Worker Experience Report”), which provides an invaluable and unique insight into the way in which AI is already being used and perceived in the workplace.

Technology managing people

This report is intended to raise awareness of the experience of workers and trade unions when artificial intelligence (AI) is used by employers to carry out people-management functions, and to identify objectives to ensure that the interests of workers are not overlooked in the use of AI.

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