Kwik Save staff are still waiting to be paid - more than a month after the company went into administration.  In Scarborough,  full and part-time staff had worked for seven weeks without pay up until the store’s closure and may only receive a percentage of what they are owed when the matter is finally resolved.  The Scarborough […]

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A new report from IPPR has shown that whilst employment in the UK has reached a record high, job quality has not been increasing at the same rate. Although the average quality of jobs in the UK has increased overall, recent evidence suggests that polarisation of employment has emerged in Britain in recent decades - […]

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The HSE has reported that 241 people died at work last year, an 11% rise on 2006. The largest number of fatalities was on building sites where 77 people were killed - 31% more than the previous year.

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The TUC has called on Government to look at new ways of enforcing the minimum wage and finally bringing rogue employment agencies to task, in its submission to the BERR consultation on National Minimum Wage enforcement, fair arrears and enforcing temporary agency standards.
 
Currently, 95 per cent of employers caught underpaying the minimum wage simply pay […]

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The BBC has reported on exploitation of staff working for a Domino’s pizza franchise in Derby.
Fifteen young Hungarian workers joined the T&G section of Unite to challenge what they considered to be systematic exploitation by the franchise holder employing them. They were seeking to be treated on a par with the UK workers they worked alongside […]

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At last month’s Unite conference the country’s biggest trade union stepped up its campaign to gain improved rights for agency workers, highlighting they face discrimination and lower pay than other employees.
Unite also believe that agency staff, including many migrants, are being used to drive down pay and conditions across the public sector and in private […]

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More than half of local councils have encountered migrants suffering from housing problems such as overcrowding, according to a survey by the Local Authorities Coordinators of Regulatory Services.
It found 57 per cent of councils reported housing problems linked to migration.
In some cases officers found households exceeding the legal occupancy limit and endangering the safety of […]

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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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