4 September 2014

Center for Cities, an independent think tank, has published a report, “unequal opportunities”. Commissioned by the Joseph Rowntree foundation, the report draws attention to the polarisation of the employment market: soaring executive pay and bonuses at one end, a proliferation of low paid, part-time work at the other.

1 September 2014

International pressure on UCL to do more to help workers on its Qatari campus is mounting. The International Trades Union Confederation (ITUC) has criticised UCL, along with seven American and one French University, for the mistreatment of workers in Qatar’s “Education City” in Doha; an academic complex that houses branches of several prestigious universities.

28 August 2014

Bromley council has been ordered to pay over £64,000 in compensation after offering employees cash incentives to give up employment rights.

28 August 2014

The Department for Business, Innovation and Skills has launched a consultation on the Small Business, Enterprise and Employment Bill. The consultation seeks to find loopholes in clause 139 of the Zero Hours Contracts (ZHC) section of the bill: the proposed ban on exclusivity clauses. Exclusivity clauses in ZHCs aim to prevent employees from obtaining work elsewhere.

27 August 2014

A review of laws governing industrial disputes, set up in the wake of the events at Grangemouth, will not make any recommendations, the report’s author Bruce Carr QC has announced.

27 August 2014

Analysis by the TUC shows that around 300,000 claimants will be forced to wait at least five weeks to receive any unemployment benefit under the new Universal Credit system.