‘Employment Rights Bill must go further to reform disgraceful sick pay system’
At £116.75 a week – just 17% of the average weekly wage – the UK’s Statutory Sick Pay…
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Employment rights bill: What Labour New Deal policies will become law?
A ban on “exploitative” zero hour contracts, bolstered day-one rights and strengthened statutory sick pay are among the…
Reeves: New Deal consultation will prevent ‘adverse consequences’
Rachel Reeves has declared businesses have “nothing to fear” from Labour’s plans to strengthen workers’ rights but said…
‘Here’s what Labour’s broad, ambitious New Deal means for working people’
Workplace rights are set to be one of the key battlegrounds at the next general election. This week…
Our plan to reform support for those out of work would offer new security to all
If you have to stop work in Britain today, your financial position will plummet. Government-mandated minimum payments for…
‘Even if I was ill, I’d have to work’: Why we need sick pay for the self-employed
Being the Labour candidate for Silverdale and a freelance educational consultant, I’ve met self-employed people from all walks…
Labour would increase sick pay, Starmer announces at TUC Congress 2021
Keir Starmer has used his keynote speech at the Trades Union Congress conference today to announce that a…
Where’s the employment bill? A missed opportunity to deliver for our workers
In the Queen’s Speech today, the government laid out its agenda for the year ahead. Despite many promises…
43% of UK workers cannot afford to self-isolate, warns TUC
The TUC has warned that the government must increase sick pay rates – or risk worsening the spread…
“Poverty” sick pay could force over 80% of ill care staff into work, says GMB
GMB is calling for all social care staff to receive full pay when sick after a recent survey…
