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DISABILITY “passports” should be offered in all workplaces to give workers greater dignity in their lives, trade unionists said yesterday.
Delegates at the GMB’s annual conference in Brighton have called on their union to campaign for a wider introduction of the Reasonable Adjustment Passport for employees who need their health considered by management.
It was tried as a scheme in several workplaces in February but delegates want it to be adopted across the board.
Employment lawyer ALICE BOWMAN warns ‘day one rights’ include an undefined ‘initial period’ and the zero-hours contract fixes create baffling fixed-term loopholes. If the Bill doesn’t work properly and deliver, Labour is doomed
On the eve of the 157th Trades Union Congress, MICK WHELAN, general secretary of Aslef, the train drivers’ union, celebrates victory in his campaign to get dignity for drivers at work
Incoming Usdaw general secretary JOANNE THOMAS talks to Ben Chacko about workers’ rights, Labour and how to arrest the decline of the high street