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TUC launches Commission on Vulnerable Employment
The TUC have launched a Commission on Vulnerable Employment (CoVE) today in Manchester joined by business leaders to investigate vulnerable working in the UK. The Commission will carry out investigations into the extent of workplace exploitation and consider improvements to enforcement and legal protec...
News | 31 May 2007
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TUC Commission meets exploited workers in the South West
On Thursday (26 July) the TUC General Secretary, Brendan Barber, visited the West Country to meet some of the region's most exploited workers. Barber, along with other members of the TUC's Commission on Vulnerable Employment, met seasonal, temporary and migrant workers in Bristol, before travelling to Taunton to meet Malcol...
News | 27 Jul 2007
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DTI launches pilot project for vulnerable workers and their employers
Employment Relations Minister Jim Fitzpatrick has launched a pilot project today providing advice and support to vulnerable workers and their employers. This comes straight after a heavy campaign from the TUC to protect and reinforce vulnerable employees’ rights following a “recent rash of shocking exposures of poor treatment”. Workplace Law reported on the launching of TUC’s Commission on Vulnerable Employment (CoVE) yesterday, aiming to draw the Government’s attention on Britain’s hidden...
News | 1 Jun 2007
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Fair Work coalition backs employment status reform
A new Fair Work coalition is coming together at the TUC in London today to campaign against employers being able to use the gaps in the UK's complex employment status law to avoid basic statutory rights. The Fair Work coalition, which includes faith groups, voluntary and community organisations and unions, is concerned that a lack of decent employ...
News | 12 Mar 2010
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Grinding to a halt: Why Government policy risks bringing business to a standstill
...abled people finding work. 31677 fOR MORe On this and OtheR eMPLOyMent LaW neWs Go to ... www.workplacelaw.net/news www.workplacelaw.net Mind the gap Public sector job losses and welfare cuts will disproportionately hit women's income and set progress on closing the gender pay gap back years, the TUC has warned in a recent report on the gender impact of the Government's cuts. 31625 13 Employment update | Case law hR case law Implications of the latest HR case law for employers ... First financial penalties for data protection offences issued The Information Commissioner has served two organ...
Magazine issue | 4 Jan 2011
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Changes to Workplace Law Magazine
...o let staff go did not seek legal or HR advice beforehand. Under employment law, where more than 100 employees are made redundant, workers must be consulted at least 90 days in advance. 22332 Apprentice rise The minimum weekly pay rate for apprenticeships has been increased from £80 to £95. Said TUC General Secretary, Brendan Barber: "The next move must be to protect apprentices with the minimum wage, so that employers cannot exploit young trainees by ignoring the minimum pay rate." 22380 Sexism and the city The Treasury committee is calling for evidence on the role of women in major UK finan...
Magazine issue | 1 Sep 2009
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Government minimum wage campaign “ineffective”
The Government's crackdown on rogue hotel operators who fail to pay staff the full minimum wage has been branded "terribly ineffective". The criticism follows a recently released TUC report, revealing that 1.5 million workers in the UK were being paid less than the National Minimum Wage (NMW), with employees in the hospitality sector especially vulnerable to being underpaid. The figures come despite a crackdown on hotel employers which HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) launched in ...
News | 29 Jan 2009
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2009: new beginnings
...sed changes will irrevocably change the way in which agency staff are used. A recent CBI survey suggests that 57% of employers anticipate reducing the use of agency labour once the Regulations are in force. Now that the directive has been ratified at EU level after agreement was reached between the TUC and CBI on how the subject should be handled from a UK perspective, the Agency Workers Commission has been established by the Recruitment and Employment Confederation (REC). This initiative involves representatives from recruitment agencies, employers, the British Chambers of Commerce, the Chartere...
Magazine issue | 8 Dec 2008
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Have we binned your Workplace Law Magazine?
...(higher absence levels as employees head to the beach, less productivity, etc.) it could also lead to the introduction of a maximum workplace temperature. Every time there is a hot spell, unions call for the introduction of a maximum workplace temperature; during the 2003 heatwave, for example, the TUC called for a maximum working temperature of 30°C, or 27°C for those doing strenuous work. Its advice at the time was: "When the heat hits the maximum, employers should More than 150,000 residents in Gloucestershire were left without drinking water, which caused a panic buy of bottled water, and ...
Magazine issue | 7 Apr 2008
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Stress management special
...erland County Council 18 Osborne Clarke 6 Pfizer UK 1, 17 PME Ltd 12, 14 R&P Long Ltd 27 RMC 27 Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) 17 Scotland Yard 26 Somerset County Council 18, 19 Steelecase 33 Tarlo Lyons Recruitment and Resourcing Group 31 Tarmac 19 The Platform Company 8 Thompsons 18 TUC 13 USDAW 8 Vertex 8 West Dorset Hospitals NHS Trust 15, 19 West Midlands Police 26 Wincanton 27 Work Foundation 12 Zurich Risk Services 7 Advertisers in this issue CMS Cameron McKenna Eversheds Kennedys Osborne Clarke Steelecase THB Group T. 020 7367 3000 www.law-now.com T. 020 7919 4500 www.eversh...
Magazine issue | 1 Nov 2004
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Same old: has health and safety really changed after the Young review?
... own actions, with the spectre of lawyers only too willing to pounce with a claim for damages on the slightest pretext. "We simply cannot go on like this. That's why I asked Lord Young to do this review and put some common sense back into health and safety. And that's exactly what he has done." The TUC said the report was a "grave disappointment", adding "the report contains not a single proposal that will reduce the high levels of workplace death, injuries and illness". For a full analysis of the Review, turn to p.18. 30840 NEWS IN BRIEf Time saving A new online risk assessment tool, which take...
Magazine issue | 1 Nov 2010
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Sweeping changes
...in the yard, and combustible materials, including cylinders containing liquid petroleum, blocked escape routes. Various appliances were also found to have electrical faults. The court heard Mr Ashley produced a risk assessment, but inspectors deemed it `inadequate'. 28020 KFC fined over hygiene Kentucky Fried Chicken has been fined £11,000 after flies, a cockroach and a mouse were found in one of its West End branches. Health inspectors reportedly found a cockroach eating a chip near takeaway boxes in the Leicester Square branch, as well as seeing a mouse, flies and dried chicken blood on the f...
Magazine issue | 1 Jul 2010
