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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.

Work and technology - Consultation response

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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Unions and online safety campaigners call on MPs to stop TikTok “sacrificing online safety” with mass AI-driven job cuts

Unions and some of the UK’s highest profile online safety campaigners have called on MPs to urgently investigate a proposed wave of over 400 job cuts from TikTok’s London office.

Rights at work - Letter

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.

Adam Cantwell-Corn - 27 Aug 2025

Work and technology - Research and reports

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Guidance on using AI and algorithmic management in the Welsh public sector

This guidance has been developed and agreed by trade unions, public sector leaders and the Welsh Government through the Workforce Partnership Council. Its full title is Managing Technology That Manages People: A Social Partnership Approach to Algorithmic Management Systems in the Welsh Public Sector.

Ceri Williams - 19 Dec 2024

Economy, jobs and pay - Research and reports

Guidance on using AI and algorithmic management in the Welsh public sector

Data intermediaries

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

Work and technology - Consultation response

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.

Work and technology - Research and reports

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.

Work and technology - Research and reports

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