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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
Insecure work
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
Rights at work
Insecure work
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
Industrial strategy
Industrial policy
Rights at work
Insecure work
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Fixing the safety net: What next on supporting working people’s incomes?

This report sets out what government must do next to protect family incomes Government must now - guarantee incomes for self-employed people, introduce paid parental leave for parents, fix the sick pay system.

- 23 Mar 2020
Policy proposal

Protecting workers’ jobs and livelihoods

TUC's economic response to coronavirus. It sets out what the TUC believes must happen next to ensure that we enable people to follow vital public health advice, protect jobs and livelihoods, and enable our economy to survive this unprecedented disruption.

- 18 Mar 2020
Policy proposal

Making this a decade of renewal

TUC Budget submission to the Treasury, calling on the Chancellor to make the 2020s a decade of renewal – with green infrastructure, rebuilding of public services, and support for better quality jobs

- 09 Mar 2020
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