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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
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Technology managing people - The worker experience
This report is intended to raise awareness of the experience of workers and trade unions when artificial intelligence (AI) is used by employers to carry out people-management functions, and to identify objectives to ensure that the interests of workers are not overlooked in the use of AI.
- 29 Nov 2020
Research and reports
Challenging Amazon Report
We urge Amazon to recognise and engage with unions as the best way to ensure workers’ rights are protected. But if Amazon will not do better for its workers, then unions and governments at all levels must work together to make sure that they do.
- 12 Oct 2020
Research and reports
Sick pay and debt
Many workers are already struggling with household finances due to the pandemic. A household debt crisis has been looming for the past few years, and without significant intervention, it could hit when a range of temporary support measures end later in the year. This note sets out new findings on sick pay and debt from a largescale survey carried out by BritainThinks.
- 10 Sep 2020
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Workers asked to shield should not have to choose between their life and livelihood
The government must ensure that those asked to shield are able to do so.
Quinn Roache - 06 Jan 2021
Make Britain’s goal for 2021 full and decent employment
In her New Year message, TUC General Secretary Frances O’Grady thanks key workers for keeping the country running through the pandemic. And she calls on the government to invest in levelling up all parts of the UK and achieving full employment.
Frances O'Grady - 01 Jan 2021
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