Trade Unionists Against the EU
Trade Unionists Against the EU TUAEU believes that the time is right to offer the peoples of Britain an alternative view of Europe outside of the EU. The working peoples of Europe are clearly not…
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UK statutory sick pay is ‘inadequate’
UK statutory sick pay is ‘inadequate’ By Ashleigh Wight on 25 Jan 2018 in Health and safety, Sick pay Statutory sick pay arrangements in the UK are in breach of legal obligations under the European…
Autonomous Vehicles Will Replace Taxi Drivers, But That’s Just the Beginning
Autonomous Vehicles Will Replace Taxi Drivers, But That’s Just the Beginning By Sam Tracy of the Huffington Post 06/11/2015 03:51 pm ET Updated Dec 06, 2017 Google, Tesla Motors, and many other companies are in a race…
Minimum wage hikes promised by Labour could lead to workers being replaced by robots, think-tanks warns
Minimum wage hikes promised by Labour could lead to workers being replaced by robots, think-tanks warns The Institute for Fiscal Studies warned wage hikes could accelerate automation Jeremy Corbyn has promised a dramatic hike in…
‘Zero real wage growth’ forecast for 2018
Unite to face retired high court judge over Len McCluskey election
Unite to face retired high court judge over Len McCluskey election Employment law specialist Jeffrey Burke will hear claim that Jeremy Corbyn ally was unfairly elected as head of union Len McCluskey beat Gerard Coyne…
Workplace robots could increase inequality, warns IPPR
Cap on English NHS staff pay to be scrapped
Cap on English NHS staff pay to be scrapped Beckett Frith, HR Magazine October 12, 2017 The move follows a letter delivered to chancellor Philip Hammond last month signed by 14 unions The health secretary…
Under-25s struggling because of lower pay
Under-25s struggling because of lower pay By Beckett Frith, HR Magazine October 13, 2017 Under-25s are missing out on between £820 and £6,300 a year because they are not entitled to the National Living Wage…
Legal lowdown: Employees’ right to privacy
The case Bărbulescu v Romania shows the need to strike a fair balance between employees’ privacy and a company’s access to information The important recent judgment of the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) examines…