27 h. ago Public spending on union officials to be kept SECRET under Labour's workers' rights overhaul

The Employment Rights Bill, which gained Royal Assent last week, will essentially allow reps to decide how to use 'facility time', paid leave from their workplace they can use to carry out union work.

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46 h. ago Now Labour could ban Christmas songs: Employment Rights Bill could see end of Jingle Bells and more sung in pubs over 'racist' origins

Supposedly 'offensive' lyrics in seasonal classic songs could come under the watch of the Government's new workers' rights legislation, it has been suggested.

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3 d. ago The workers' rights bill will lead to 'fewer jobs not better ones', warns head of the British Retail Consortium

If government is serious about growth, it must start treating business as a genuine partner in delivering it.

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4 d. ago As metaphor for SNP 'incompetence', the already rusting Glen Rosa ferry is hard to beat

Union official says skilled shipbuilders were ‘lions led by donkeys’ as she condemns ‘the hubris, incompetence and mismanagement’ of Scottish Government ministers and others

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7 d. ago Labour’s workers’ rights bill to become law after Lords battle

The ‘historic’ bill has been praised by trade unions and MPs who pushed to get it through the House of Lords

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7 d. ago UK government’s flagship workers’ rights legislation clears final hurdle

Employment rights bill heads for statute book after House of Lords backs down

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7 d. ago Labour FINALLY gets its workers' rights laws through Parliament as peers end their long battle over Bill

Peers on Tuesday dropped their extended opposition to the controversial Employment Rights Bill, which is now poised to become law.

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7 d. ago UK government’s flagship workers’ rights legislation clears House of Lords

Landmark Employment Rights bill heads for statute books

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8 d. ago Angela Rayner stokes war with House of Lords over Labour workers' rights laws: Ex

The former deputy prime minister lashed out at hereditary peers in the House of Lords for 'blocking' the Government's flagship legislation.

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8 d. ago Putin 'open' to Ukraine joining EU in peace deal but offer won't be on table 'forever'

Russia has reportedly said it is open to allowing Ukraine to join the European Union as part of a potential peace deal, according to US officials working with both countries

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8 d. ago Business groups urge peers to PASS Labour's workers' rights law

In a joint letter to Business Secretary Peter Kyle, six organisations said that 'now is the time' for Parliament to pass the Employment Rights Bill.

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1 week ago Labour MP calls for 'serious debate' on abolition of House of Lords

Euan Stainbank said it was a “disgrace” that Conservative and Liberal Democrat peers were obstructing Labour's worker’s rights law.

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1 week ago 'Rayner's shoring up support across the party': As Team Ange plot her leadership bid, how a botched hit job left Starmer exposed to an assassin's blade

When ministers heard Angela Rayner was planning a dramatic Commons intervention on her beloved - and economically ruinous - workers' rights Bill, they swung into action.

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1 week ago MPs and peers could sit over Christmas break to pass workers' rights overhaul after Starmer's latest humiliating defeat in the Lords

Furious peers voted down a last-minute change to the Employment Rights Bill that could open the door to unlimited unfair dismissal payouts.

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1 week ago Unions demand MPs and peers sit over CHRISTMAS to pass workers' rights overhaul after Starmer's latest humiliating defeat in the Lords

Furious peers voted down a last-minute change to the Employment Rights Bill that could open the door to unlimited unfair dismissal payouts.

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1 week ago Starmer defeated in the Lords AGAIN over workers' rights overhaul

Furious peers voted down a last-minute change to the Employment Rights Bill that could open the door to unlimited unfair dismissal payouts.

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1 week ago UK government suffers fresh setback to flagship workers’ rights legislation

Row over cap on unfair dismissal payouts in House of Lords threatens to delay delivery of manifesto pledge

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1 week ago Iceland boss and top Downing Street aide among Keir Starmer’s new Labour peers

The series of Labour appointments to Parliament's upper chamber comes as the Government has faced staunch opposition from peers over its flagship workers' rights legislation

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2 w. ago Rights of protestors, migrant workers and disabled people being ‘failed’ by government, ECHR chief says

The new chairwoman of the Equality and Human Rights Commission has urged ministers to “ensure rights are protected across the nation”

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2 w. ago Former justice department workers sign letter decrying Trump’s ‘near destruction’ of civil rights division – live

Attorneys say they left because the administration ‘turned the Division’s core mission upside down, largely abandoning its duty to protect civil rights’A federal judge in New York has granted the justice department’s request to unseal grand jury documents in the sex-trafficking case against Ghislaine Maxwell – the companion and accomplice of the late sex-offender Jeffrey Epstein. It comes after the passage of the Epstein Files Transparency Act, which Donald Trump signed last month.The legislation requires the Department of Justice to release the full tranche of records related to disgraced financier, in a searchable format by 19 December. Continue reading...

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