A final chance to defeat the hospital closure clause
The TUC is calling on MPs to oppose the government’s ill-thought out hospital closure clause.
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Unless we see a pick-up in productivity, the UK risks slower growth
Unless we see a pick-up in productivity growth soon then the UK risks much slower growth, and lower living standards, in the future.
Despite welcome news on unemployment, pay and productivity are stagnating
Despite today’s welcome news on falling unemployment, pay and productivity are stagnating.
TUC Take Government To EU Over Agency Work Laws
The UK government is failing to implement EU laws, resulting in tens of thousands of agency workers paid less than permanent staff doing the same job, says the TUC.
Six Tory myths about employment tribunal fees
Since yesterday morning, if your boss sexually harasses you, or sacks you for the colour of your skin, you will have fork out an eye-watering £1200 to have your case heard before an employment tribunal.
How pre-distribution could boost the wage share
There has been much discussion of the merits of prioritising ‘pre-distribution’ – of attempting to achieve a more equal distribution of the cake before turning to ‘redistribution’ through tax and benefits.
The minimum wage at 15 – fully grown-up?
There is a strong consensus that the National Minimum Wage (NMW) has been a success yet, quite rightly, we are still worried about low pay. Can we do more with the NMW, or should we be thinking about a whole platter of policies to bring about fairer pay?
UK construction industry shrinks 10 per cent under coalition
The UK construction industry has shrunk by ten per cent under the coalition and construction output is now at its lowest level since 1998, according to new analysis by the TUC.
Pensions – an unfinished revolution
Before Mrs Thatcher destroyed Britain’s post-war pension consensus, Beveridge had given us a decent state pension that kept up with earnings, and Barbara Castle had added an earnings related state pension (SERPS) to those whose employers did not provide a decent workplace pension on top.
Benefit fraud accounts for just 0.7 per cent of welfare budget, official figures show
The latest report estimates fraud and error levels in the benefit system in Great Britain, published by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) today, found that benefit fraud accounts for just 0.7 per cent of the welfare budget.