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If govt wants older people to stay in work, it needs to improve their rights
03 February 2017
The government yesterday announced a new strategy to "encourage the over 50s to reap the benefits of work" – a phrasing that seems to place responsibility on the unemployed for their own bad luck – at a time when it is systematically undermining the very mechanisms that could help older workers fight for their rights.
Sport Direct-style exploitation revealed in yet another high street retailer
02 February 2017
Exploitative conditions have been found at yet another high street retailer - BooHoo - after a Channel 4 Dispatches investigation sent an undercover reporter into the retailer's warehouse.
Govt says workers only "discouraged" not "prevented" from accessing justice
01 February 2017
Despite a reporting a 68% fall in cases between 2013 and 2015, the government insists that workers are not "prevented" from accessing justice, they are only "discouraged".
Govt industrial strategy makes no mention of trade unions
27 January 2017
The government has this week unveiled its new industrial strategy, in which businesses were mentioned 356 times and trade unions were not mentioned at all.
TUA industrial ballot thresholds to come into force on March 01 2017
27 January 2017
The thresholds on industrial ballots agreed in the Trade Union Act 2016 (TUA) will come into force on March 01 2017.
UK textile workers paid £3 an hour, investigation reveals
23 January 2017
A new Dispatches investigation by Channel 4, which will be aired tonight, has revealed that textiles workers in the UK are illegally being paid just £3 per hour.
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