Posted on July 11th, 2007 by Nicola
A drive to cut Olympic construction costs is threatening to suck in large numbers of “bogus self-employed” migrant workers, leading to widespread tax avoidance and blocked work opportunities for local people, ministers have been warned.
Alan Ritchie, general secretary of UCATT, the construction union, has written to Jane Kennedy, financial secretary to the treasury, and Paul […]
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Posted on July 2nd, 2007 by Nicola
The Commission’s final report, Our Shared Future was published on 14 June 2007. It provides practical approaches to building communities’ own capacity to reduce tensions and create opportunities for more integrated and cohesive societies.
The report contains a large number of recommendations including:
Urging the Department for Education and Skills (DfES) to reconsider cuts in the funding […]
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Posted on July 2nd, 2007 by Nicola
A new paper is circulating in London. The New Londoners, produced by the Refugee Media Action Group at the Migrants Resource Centre for Refugee Week, is slickly produced with quality pictures and interesting articles which provide information and analysis about issues that affect refugees and asylum seekers in London.
The New Londoners contains articles on the […]
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Posted on July 2nd, 2007 by Nicola
Following the recent European Summit the UK has opted out of the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights. The European Union Charter of Fundamental Rights sets out in a single text, for the first time in the European Union’s history, the whole range of civil, political, economic and social rights of European citizens and all persons […]
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Posted on July 2nd, 2007 by Nicola
Unison has praised the role of migrant workers in
Britain’s public services and urged the Government to change attitudes that “criminalise” them.
Unison said thousands of care workers, kitchen assistants, meat handlers, cleaners, nurses and classroom assistants were migrants.
General secretary and CoVE Commissioner Dave Prentis said: “It’s about time that many of the opinion formers woke up […]
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Posted on July 2nd, 2007 by Nicola
A new TUC report maintains that migrant workers are not responsible for unemployment or low pay and are not a drain on the welfare state. It argues that the policy response to migration should be to provide extra training for low-skilled workers and to enforce employment standards, such as the minimum wage. This report is […]
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Posted on July 2nd, 2007 by Nicola
Labour MP Jim Sheridan has introduced a Bill to ‘amend the Gangmasters (Licensing) Act 2004 to extend its provisions to cover construction work; and for connected purposes’.
The current Act applies to all labour providers operating in the agricultural and shellfish industries and the food processing and packaging sectors. It requires all those gangmasters to be […]
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Posted on July 2nd, 2007 by Nicola
The Commission on Vulnerable Employment recently met with workers and staff from across London. They heard from Eastern European migrants who had received support from The Upper Room, a charity supporting people with experience of homelessness. One respondent had worked for an agency in a seaside resort outside of London - after being driven to […]
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