200 UK employers sign up for permanent four-day working week
The majority of the public expects a four-day week to be the norm by 2030
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McDonald’s boss in meltdown as 1 in 2 outlets face legal action
‘Has McDonald’s basically now become a predator’s paradise?’
Tracy Gilbert MP: How Labour’s New Deal for workers will transform the lives of workers in Scotland
In Scotland, zero-hour contracts have hit record highs, with many people under employed with contracts averaging just 18.4 hours a week – far less than the stability needed to build a secure life.
Paul Nowak: This year’s TUC Congress is the beginning of a real positive shift in Britain’s workplaces
Knowing that we will finally ban zero-hour contracts, end fire-and-rehire and repeal anti-strike laws made the atmosphere in Brighton so different from last year’s Congress – or any Congress in the last decade.
How Labour’s New Deal for Workers could be even more radical
There is still more to be done…
Workers to get right to request four-day week under Labour’s workers’ rights overhaul
In reforms designed to shift the balance of power from companies to workers, a system of “compressed hours”, which lets an employee work their contracted week’s hours in four days rather than five, will be included in the package of new rights for workers.
Amazon slammed for ‘pressuring’ workers to cancel union membership as it beats back union bid
Amazon now faces an outstanding legal challenge – known as an Inducement Claim – for pressuring workers into cancelling their union membership during the ballot period.
Paul Nowak: The New Deal for Working People is key to rebuilding Britain
The trade union movement is ready to do what we can to work with Keir Starmer and his new Labour government to deliver the change working families desperately need.
This is how Plaid Cymru would transform workers’ rights
Luke Fletcher MS sets outs Plaid Cymru’s policies on workers’ rights
How trade unions reacted to Labour’s manifesto
Labour’s pledges received praise, but also warnings that it hasn’t gone far enough for some leading unions