According to reports in the Financial Times, ministers will allow The Worker Protection Bill to fall – despite previously vowing to support the legislation that will introduce a new preventative duty ...

Responding to today’s (Monday) announcement of a new trade reset between the UK and the EU, TUC General Secretary Paul Nowak said: “Today’s summit represents an important first step towards securing a ...

Some unions have negotiated special 'disability leave' for employees. The aim of disability leave is to give time and job security to newly disabled employees. The leave allows you to assess whether ...

Audits of CVs that include disability-related information, such as blindness, deafness, cerebral palsy and autism, have shown ...

The government cannot stand by while mums are forced out of work. Without immediate action to support women to stay in work we risk losing decades of progress on women’s labour market participation.

The Covid-19 pandemic continues to impact heavily on all our lives and one of the long-lasting, but unanticipated, impacts is the emergence of Long Covid. Whilst many people infected by Covid-19 may ...

How are mums coping? Working mums told the TUC they were struggling with the strain of being expected to carry out their jobs as normal, while balancing childcare and home-schooling. 65 per cent said ...

Women in their 30s are hardest hit – one in 10 women in this age group drop out of the jobs market because of pressures of looking after their family Union body calls for funded childcare and flexible ...

Since release, our proposal has been updated 04/05/2020 This report sets out what we believe the government must do now to ensure a safe transition from lockdown, looking at how to safely return to ...

Insecure work is not new, its prevalence has increased since 2010 under the Coalition and then Conservative governments. In 2011, 3.2 million were in insecure work by 2022 the number was 3.9 million, ...

Changes to employment rates among older workers over time Employment rates among older workers have also increased markedly over the same period. For those aged 50 to 64 the employment rate has ...

This research from the TUC provides a powerful and important insight into the experiences of lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans plus (LGBT+) workers of bullying, harassment and discrimination at work.