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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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Make Work Pay: Consultation on improving access to flexible working

The provisions in the Employment Rights Act are welcome, and our response provides a trade union view on how to ensure the duty to consult process is robust, fair and consistent. We also believe that legislative change needs to go further if we are to ensure that flexible working is the default for all workers.

Alice Arkwright - 31 May 2026

Equality - Consultation response

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.

Equality - Research and reports

Women and Equalities Committee consultation on the rights of older people

We appreciate the opportunity to respond to the Women and Equalities Committee consultation on the rights of older people. Our consultation focusses on two questions – digital exclusion for older people, and what more needs to be done to support older people who want to stay in work longer.

Anjum Klair - 26 Feb 2024

Equality - Consultation response

Creating a healthy labour market

Over recent years, the number of people in the UK who are economically inactive has risen sharply. This has been largely driven by an increase in the numbers of older people leaving the labour market before they reach state pension age. This initially led to discussion of a ‘great retirement’, but the latest data is clear that the real story is that a growing number of people are simply too sick to work.

Anjum Klair - 01 Mar 2023

Equality - Research and reports

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TUC Equality Audit 2022

The TUC Equality Audit 2022 considers the steps unions are taking to promote equality in their membership, structures and processes, and to ensure they reflect the diversity of their membership.

Equality - Research and reports

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Action on flexible working

Letter from MPs calling for action on flexible working

Equality - Letter

Older workers after the pandemic: creating an inclusive labour market

This report explores the substantial rise in older workers leaving the labour market before they reach state pension age, calling for major changes in the workplace. BME and ethnic minority (BME) and working class workers are also significantly more likely to be prematurely forced out of work.

Economy, jobs and pay - Research and reports

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TUC Equality Audit 2020-2021

The 2020 TUC Equality Audit suggests that, in the two years before the outbreak of Covid-19, there were signs that the climate for equality bargaining had improved slightly compared with the position four years earlier.

Equality - Research and reports

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