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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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Stagnant pay shows new PM is right to pledge action on the cost of living – TUC

Today’s figures show Andy Burnham is doing the right thing by pledging action on the cost of living. Working people are up against it with stagnant real pay, over a million people stuck on insecure zero-hour contracts, and a million young people not in employment, education, or training.

Economy, jobs and pay

TUC hosts trade unions from Palestine and the Middle East

In June, the TUC arranged an advocacy delegation with Shaher Sa’ed, General Secretary of the PGFTU and Dr Hind Bennemar, Executive Secretary of the Arab TUC.

Global solidarity

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What do you know about Employment Rights Act (ERA)

We want to understand what people already know about the new Employment Rights Act (ERA) and how it is being implemented in workplaces. We want to hear from as many reps and officers as possible - so that we can help you support your members.

Make Work Pay: Strengthening the law on tipping

Tips are intended for workers and should be under their democratic control. However, when employers influence how tips are distributed, those funds are often used to cross-subsidise the wages of management or back-of-house staff.

Rights at work - Consultation response

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Nationalisation of British Steel “vital step forward” for entire industry and its workers

Steel is a foundation industry – it's vital to our economy and our security as a country. Nationalising British Steel is the right thing to do and it’s in the national interest.

Industrial strategy

Nigerian Government investigated for anti-union interference

2024 arrest of NLC President on his way to TUC Congress raised with UN workers’ rights watchdog

Stephen Russell - 16 Jul 2026

Global solidarity

The growth of trade union membership in the UK – a focus on TUC London, East and South East

The official statistics published in May showed a big rise in trade union membership in the UK between 2024 and 2025. We at the TUC rightly celebrated the increase of 192,000 members to 6.57 million. Read the TUC’s excellent blog about the membership figures.

Laurie Heselden - 16 Jul 2026

Union organising

Proposals on the school support staff negotiating body

The TUC fully supports the government’s ambition to establish a dedicated negotiating body for school support staff to improve employment conditions within the sector. We welcome the opportunity to respond to this consultation.

Public services and transport - Consultation response

TUC CYMRU RESPONSE TO SUPPLEMENTARY BUDGET VOTE

TUC Cymru General Secretary, Laura Doel responds

Corporate Governance and responsibility

PPE scandal shows need to protect staff and public from dodgy deals with private sector – TUC

The TUC responds to the Covid Inquiry report on failures in providing PPE

Health and safety

PCS exposes the human cost of Capita's incompetence and demands immediate and radical action

PCS has demanded that public sector workers must administer the Civil Service Pension Scheme to remedy unforgivable harm caused by Capita’s incompetence and that those who have suffered must be compensated as a matter of urgency.

Union organising

pcs/capita protest

Workers actually have significant leverage on AI right now

In talk of the ‘AI transformation’ workers are often cast as the subjects or even victims of change. They are to be trained, maybe protected or perhaps just discarded. It is true that workers face instability. But two dynamics are playing out in a way that is giving workers, representatives and allies significant leverage right now.

Adam Cantwell-Corn - 14 Jul 2026

Work and technology

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Bank bonuses hit £25 billion as TUC says hike in bank windfall tax “long overdue”

New analysis from the TUC reveals bank bonuses have hit a post-crash record – as the union body calls for a hike in the bank windfall tax, which it says is “common sense and long overdue”.

Economy, jobs and pay

Care homes in Wales increasingly run for profit, says TUC Cymru and UNISON

New report shows that 75% of identified adult care home places in Wales are run by for-profit providers

Corporate Governance and responsibility

Care homes in Wales increasingly run for profit, says TUC Cymru and UNISON

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.

Work and technology - Research and reports

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Make Work Pay: Non-disclosure agreements (NDAs)

The TUC strongly supports the measures introduced via the Employment Rights Act 2025 to tackle the misuse of non-disclosure agreements (NDAs). We know that NDAs can be used to prevent parties from disclosing information about workplace misconduct. Evidence has emerged in recent years, including through several parliamentary inquiries, about the misuse of NDAs by some employers to silence workers from speaking out on sexual harassment complaints and other misconduct.

Matt Creagh - 09 Jul 2026

Rights at work - Consultation response

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Timms review: PIP system is failing disabled people - TUC

Responding to the Timms’ review today (Thursday), which finds Personal Independence payments (PIP) - a key disability benefit – is “not fit for purpose” and needs fundamental change, TUC General Secretary Paul Nowak said: "Disabled people deserve dignity, both in the workplace and in the social security system. Those who cannot work should be able to access financial support without unnecessary complications...

Consultation on proposals for the Reporting of Injuries, Diseases and Dangerous Occurrences Regulations 2013

The most effective tool that we have in ensuring good health and safety at work is trade unions, because organised workplaces are safer workplaces. Evidence shows that workplaces with union safety reps and joint union-management safety committees have major injury rates less than half of those without. Unions make a difference.

Huma Haq - 08 Jul 2026

Health and safety - Consultation response

A global breakthrough for platform workers: what the new ILO Convention means

Platform workers are for the first time the subject of a global labour standard following the adoption of the Decent Work in the Platform Economy Convention at the 114th International Labour Conference (ILC) in Geneva.

Peter Wieltschnig - 08 Jul 2026

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Shaping a social security system that works - getting PIP right

At this year’s TUC Disabled Workers Conference, held at the Bournemouth International Centre on 19–20 May 2026, over 250 delegates came together to debate some of the most pressing issues facing disabled people today.

Quinn Roache - 08 Jul 2026

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TUC slams Farage announcement as a “cynical political stunt” to distract from dodgy dealings

Commenting on Nigel Farage’s announcement today (Tuesday), TUC General Secretary Paul Nowak said:

Economy, jobs and pay

Employers should show “common sense” and let football fans work flexibly on Monday, TUC says

England will play Mexico in the World Cup at 1am on Monday

UK and European unions call for “common sense” reset with EU amid global uncertainty

The British and European union bodies say the UK government “must honour the referendum vote”, while showing ambition in resetting our relationship with the EU even further so that it works for working people.

Economy, jobs and pay

TUC launches major new initiative with employers and unions to tackle Britain’s skills crisis

The new initiative – the 2050 Skills Project – will co-design a long-term, worker-centred skills strategy

Industrial strategy

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