employee rights

Keir Starmer Labour Levelling Up

Workers' rights

Labour's workers' rights plan slammed as 'unrecognisable' and a 'betrayal' by Unite union boss

Labour’s draft New Deal for workers is 'unrecognisable', unions have claimed, as the party scraps plans to ban zero hour contracts

Train strikes

Train drivers to stage more strikes in May, ASLEF union announces: 'We won't back down'

Four-day working week

Millions of Brits think their jobs are 'meaningless.' Could a four-day working work week fix that?

Marigold Balquen

I was abused, bullied and left in limbo as a migrant domestic worker. I'm proud of myself for surviving

Minimum wage

Over 500 employers named for 'cheating workers' out of minimum wage – but it's worse than you think

four-day week

Every single company embracing four-day working week says move has been 'positive', study finds

Woman working on laptop in the garden

Heatwave

Working temperature: When is it too hot to work?

Gig economy workers tend to be on zero-hour contracts or short-term, freelance contracts rather than permanent jobs with a set number of hours.

Insecure work

Zero-hours contracts: Are they legal and what rights do they give me?

Two mothers in witch costumes hold sign: 'The future won't raise itself'

Childcare crisis

Meet the mums calling for immediate reform of childcare and flexible working

Cafe worker totals up a till at the end of the day

Low pay

Asked to do unpaid overtime? That’s wage theft and it could be pushing your pay below minimum wage

Ocado Zoom workers protest outside the company's depot in Acton. Image: IWGB

Gig economy

Ocado Zoom workers face ‘botched’ fire and rehire tactics as MP highlights their ‘appalling treatment’

fire and rehire

Employment

Fire and rehire: Government blocks bill to protect workers