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TRADE UNIONISTS urged Britain’s workers to “generate industrial power in the workplace” after legal experts warned the next decade will be full of “ambiguity” for workers’ rights.
Irwin Mitchell solicitors have expressed concern that the Withdrawal Act 2020, which agreed that Britain would leave the European Union on January 31, has no guarantees about enshrining European labour legislation into British law.
Although Britain will follow all EU law during the transition period ending on December 31, Irwin Mitchell’s Sybille Steiner said that the Act “does not contain any reassurances about worker rights.”
The Tories introduced the 50% strike ballot threshold to make industrial action harder. MATT WRACK argues that a Labour government has no justification for leaving it on the statute book
TUC general secretary PAUL NOWAK tells Ben Chacko that Labour can win back disillusioned voters by delivering workplace reforms, rebuilding trust and challenging the far right’s growing influence
The unions are unhappy with the Employment Rights Act 2025 and with good reason. KEITH EWING and Lord JOHN HENDY KC take a close look at why the Bill promised more than it delivered
Labour must not allow unelected members of the upper house to erode a single provision of the Employment Rights Bill, argues ANDY MCDONALD MP