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TUC chief calls for directors of P&O Ferries to be disqualified

Francis O’Grady writes to Insolvency Service, which is investigating the sacking of almost 800 crew

The Guardian - UK

Action needed on gender pensions gap – TUC

Average pensions income gap between women and men is 38%, study suggests

The Independent UK

Single parents set to lose a whole month's pay this year thanks to rocketing inflation

Damning House of Commons Library analysis finds inflation, DWP Universal Credit and National Insurance and tax changes will leave a single parent-of-two £1,214 worse off - which is what they take home after tax in a month

Daily Mirror

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Queen's Speech: Tories vowed 20 times to bring in Employment Bill but reforms set to be delayed

Boris Johnson was accused of 'dragging down Britain's workers' after it emerged that the promised Employment Bill is not expected to be in Tuesday's Queen's Speech

Daily Mirror

Cuts to rail funding increases risk of serious crash, union warns

"If the Network Rail cuts go ahead it will mean the loss of safety-critical jobs"

Manchester Evening News

Rail funding cuts will increase risk of serious crashes, warn unions

The TUC said it would be ‘impossible’ to make planned cuts without losing ‘safety-critical jobs’.

The Independent UK

Pay gap for people with disabilities in employment grows in last year

Workers with disabilities are earning £1.93 less every hour than their non-disabled counterparts.

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Pay gap grew last year for workers with disabilities

People with disabilities were paid nearly 14% less than their colleagues, new data shows

The Independent UK

Working mothers forced to quit over flexible arrangements as bosses ‘reject requests too easily’

Exclusive: New polling shows vast majority want flexible working as union warns workers are pushed into cutting hours or taking unpaid leave instead

The Independent UK

Frances O’Grady to stand down as TUC leader at end of year

Federation’s general secretary, in post since 2013, is ‘proud of what we achieved during the pandemic’

The Guardian - UK

Frances O’Grady quits the TUC after nine years

The general secretary of the congress will leave at the end of the year.

The Independent UK

TUC’s first female leader to stand down after a decade at helm of union movement

Successor to Frances O’Grady to be elected in September ahead of her retirement at end of the year

The Independent UK

TUC General Secretary Frances O'Grady to stand down after almost 10 years

The first female to hold the role played a key role in negotiating the furlough scheme and began her career campaigning for a national minimum wage.

Daily Mirror

Tories branded 'inhumane' as Statutory Sick Pay rises today… by exactly £3.00

Statutory Sick Pay is going up today to £99.35 a week - but it's no longer paid from day one if you have Covid, and the Tories have already quietly ditched plans to extend it to millions more people

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Liverpool Echo

Government urged to 'come clean' on workers' rights after P&O jobs scandal

A union boss said the events at P&O "have exposed gaping holes in UK employment law"

The Guardian - UK

Delaying new law ‘gives green light to rogue employers’, says TUC

With employment bill unlikely to make Queen’s speech, P&O Ferries-type scandals will happen again, says Frances O’Grady

Daily Mirror

Boris Johnson accused of letting P&O off the hook after they sacked 800 workers

The Insolvency Service, a Government agency which deals with redundancies, has launched a civil and criminal investigation but unions fear inquiry will be kicked into the long grass with no timetable of results

The Independent UK

Free parking for hospital staff to end on Friday – Javid

The measure was introduced during the Covid pandemic.

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The Independent UK

Government vows to clamp down on ‘fire and rehire’ after P&O sackings

New code of practice will have ‘deterrent effect’, says business minister

The Independent UK

Union leaders demand action on promised protections for workers after ‘callous’ P&O sackings

Exclusive: Boris Johnson promised bill two years ago to ‘make Britain the best place to work’ after Brexit

Daily Mirror

P&O nightshift worker woken up by security guard to be told he's lost his job

Protestors descended on Parliament this afternoon to condemn P&O's sacking of 800 workers last week. Crowds chanted 'no to P&O' and 'shame on you' as Labour MPs made speeches

The Independent UK

Government knew of ‘game plan’ for P&O Ferries mass redundancies, says Labour

‘There is no excuse for what we saw last Thursday,’ said the transport secretary, Grant Shapps

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