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TUC's response to Taylor Review consultations
Our responses to the Taylor Review consultations on agency workers, the enforcement of employment rights, employment status and measures to improve transparency in the UK labour market.
27 Jun 2018
Consultation response
Ending the Undercutters' Charter
Too often agency workers get paid much less than directly employed staff for doing the exact same work.
05 Mar 2018
Policy proposal
Great Jobs with Guaranteed Hours
Our major poll found many zero-hours contract workers don’t benefit from important workplace rights, and they put up with insecure hours and pay.
Alex Collinson - 01 Dec 2017
Research and reports
Latest reports
Forced out: The cost of getting childcare wrong
The government cannot stand by while mums are forced out of work. Without immediate action to support women to stay in work we risk losing decades of progress on women’s labour market participation. The recommendations in this report are emergency measures to prevent widespread and unnecessary job loss among working parents.
- 04 Jun 2020
Research and reports
Testing & tracing for Covid-19
Report on the workplace implications of testing and tracing
- 23 May 2020
Research and reports
TUC response to inquiry on Coronavirus (Covid-19) and the impact on people with protected characteristics
The TUC welcomes the Committee’s timely inquiry into the impact of COVID 19 and the response to it on people with protected characteristics and the recognition that both immediate and longer term action is necessary to ensure that existing inequalities are not amplified or entrenched.
- 18 May 2020
Consultation response
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Protect self-employed workers and extend the Self Employment Scheme
The Self Employment Scheme unions fought for has helped protect livelihoods - now the government must extend it
Tim Sharp - 28 May 2020
Testing and tracing for Covid-19 must be fair – and proportionate
Equal access to testing and robust privacy are key to delivering a successful track and trace regime for coronavirus.
Natasha Owusu - 23 May 2020
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