25 November, 2013
21 November, 2013
The Equality and Human Rights Commission is calling for evidence as part of an in-depth examination into recruitment and employment practices in the cleaning industry.
20 November, 2013
Steps taken include new guidelines for companies seeking public sector contracts, who if they are found to have used a blacklist of trade union members will have to show they have taken appropriate remedial action.
20 November, 2013
TES told that the Department for Education’s decision to only allow providers rated good or outstanding to offer the government’s programme for helping young people into work had limited its impact.
19 November, 2013
New TUC analysis highlights that new mothers in the UK get six weeks of statutory maternity pay at 90 per cent of their wage, whereas the European average for 'well-paid' leave is 43 weeks.
18 November, 2013
New Joseph Rowntree Foundation report looks at forced labour's business models and supply chains.
13 November, 2013
13 November, 2013
New report from the Institute for Public Policy Research finds that whilst the unemployment rate for 25-64 year-olds has fallen by 0.2 per cent over the last year, the youth unemployment rate has risen by 0.5 per cent
6 November, 2013
If increases in the minimum wage had kept pace with price rises since 2007 a full-time worker's annual salary would now be £770 higher, TUC says.
5 November, 2013
In a written statement to parliament, government minister Jo Swinson announces a more targeted enforcement strategy for the recruitment sector with resources from the Employment Agency Standards Inspectorate moving to the HMRC national minimum wage team from yesterday.
4 November, 2013
Guardian reports on increase as Ed Miliband pledges tax breaks to employers adopting voluntary rate.
4 November, 2013
'We will look at existing research, gather new evidence and carry out our expert analysis to establish the extent of the problem and advise on how best it can to be addressed', says Chief Executive.
1 November, 2013
New Department for Business, Innovation & Skills survey also finds that nearly half of successful claimants had to resort to enforcement before receiving any payment.
1 November, 2013
New TUC report, 'The Gender Jobs Split', reveals how gender still plays a huge part in determining young people’s careers.
30 October, 2013
Issue 157 of Garden Court Chambers' Employment Law Bulletin is now available.
29 October, 2013
Strategy, launched today, will ensure that all government action across every department 'is working with one single, united purpose to improve the lives of these vulnerable young people', says Children and Families Minister
28 October, 2013
New Resolution Foundation report also finds that almost three-quarters of these workers are women.
23 October, 2013
Head of Low Pay Commission also tells the Guardian that cuts in funding means that councils are cutting the rates that they paid care companies to wash, feed and dress the elderly and frail.
23 October, 2013
New research by law firm Slater & Gordon finds that sexist attitudes and inappropriate behaviour still rife in the workplace.
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