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How much is a holiday worth?

1 September 2014

By Camilla Belich.

The Leicester Employment Tribunal is due to consider the CJEU decision on commission payment during holiday this February.

That option no longer exists: Britain 1974-76 by PCS Industrial Officer John Medhurst. A Review.

1 September 2014

By Enrico Tortolano, Research and Policy Officer at the union PCS.

Enrico Tortolano reviews a new book That option no longer exists: Britain 1974-76 by PCS Industrial Officer John Medhurst.

Economic justice is a prerequisite to social wellbeing

28 August 2014

By Professor Keith Ewing and John Hendy QC

A new pamphlet charts, with great clarity, the path to greater economic equality, write Keith Ewing and John Hendy

Unions In The Firing Line

22 August 2014

By George Harissis, leading Greek trade unionist with postscript from Cllr Isidoros Diakides

Trade unions are workers’ first defence against Europe’s harshest austerity regime, argues GEORGE HARISSIS – and they’re under attack.

Carr review into industrial disputes collapses.

8 August 2014

By Tony Burke, Assistant General Secretary, UNITE

The review of rules governing industrial disputes, lead by Bruce Carr Q.C. collapsed in August when he notified the Government that: “I am concerned about the ability of the review to operate in a progressively politicised environment in the run-up to the general election and in circumstances in which the main parties will wish to legitimately set out their respective manifesto commitments and have already started to do so”.

The Agricultural Sector (Wales) Bill is good news for workers' rights and devolution

31 July 2014

By Hannah Blythyn, Unite the Union

The UK Supreme Court ruling that a National Assembly for Wales Bill to protect agricultural workers through setting up an Agricultural Advisory Panel is lawful is not only good news for rural workers and workplace rights but for devolution in Wales as a whole.

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