unions

UK workers will get less of a say than workers in the US and the EU, where unions have a real voice in the negotiating process, says the TUC.

Low-paid self-employed workers were unable to shift to home working during lockdown, unlike higher paid freelancers in professional services like consultancy or tutoring.

TheTrades Union Congress has called on the government to make it compulsory for employers to publish their disability pay gaps, as the TUC’s annual disabled workers’ conference started in Bournemouth.

A federal court has blocked a North Carolina law that prevents farmworkers from organising and making collective bargaining agreements with their employers from going into effect as a legal challenge proceeds.