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This report makes the case that the UK should put in place a permanent furlough scheme to deal with future periods of economic turbulence.

Report: Beyond furlough

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Coronavirus - Guidance for unions

This guide is for union reps - understanding coronavirus and workplace issues, employer negotiations and how best protect the workforce

Coronavirus - Guidance for unions

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Action on flexible working

Letter from MPs calling for action on flexible working

Equality - Letter

Public responses to the government consultation on making flexible working the default

TUC responds to the Department for Business, Enterprise and Industrial Strategy's consultation on making flexible working the default.

Economy, jobs and pay - Consultation response

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Seven ways platform workers are fighting back

Globally the number of platforms has grown five-fold in a decade. It can seem that practices like casualisation, management by algorithm rather than human and a complete absence of trade unions are baked into the way that platform economy is run. There are fears that it is therefore only a matter of time before these spread to other jobs.

Economy, jobs and pay - Research and reports

Worker cycling

Disabled Workers’ access to flexible working as a reasonable adjustment

An overwhelming majority of disabled workers who worked from home during the pandemic told the TUC that they want to continue doing so. Employers have a duty to put in place reasonable adjustments for disabled workers which can include enabling flexible and home working.

Equality - Research and reports

home worker

Levelling up at work - fixing work to level up across the UK

This report argues that poor quality work is a key cause of broader inequality across the country. Unless we reduce the numbers of people in jobs that are in low-paid, insecure and offer no route to better quality work, little will change in the lived experience of a significant number and proportion of people across every part of the UK. We cannot level up the country without levelling up at work.

Corporate Governance and responsibility - Research and reports

Reforming the Framework for Better Regulation

The government's proposal to take a deregulatory approach to future legislation is extremely concerning. Instead of deregulating labour market regulation and threatening EU-derived employment protections, the government should focus on improving workers’ rights. This should include an employment bill that ends exploitative employment practices such as the use of zero-hours contracts and fire-and-rehire.

Rights at work - Consultation response

Umbrella companies: Why agencies and employers should be banned from using them

The use of umbrella companies appears to have nothing to do with supporting workers, and more to do with parts of the labour supply chain taking an additional cut out of payroll funds. Employment agencies should be required to pay and employ the staff they place with end clients. For these reasons the TUC believe that a complete ban on the use of umbrella companies is the only way to prevent the exploitation that workers face.

Economy, jobs and pay - Research and reports

The future of flexible work

New polling in this report reveals an emerging class divide as some workers opt to keep working from home whereas those who can’t work from home have little access to any forms of flexible working. It reveals a significant divide in access to homeworking between higher-paid and working-class occupations. The polling finds strong demand for other forms of flexible working from all groups of workers, such as control over working hours.

Rights at work - Research and reports

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