Colombian national Isabella Acevedo asks to be treated with same leniency as Harper following reshuffle promotion as Disabled People's Minister

Watchdog investigation closes down 13 unsafe building sites, hands 85 enforcement notices and warns 201 others

Ranks of co-ordinated action swelled by local government workers fighting for decent pay

Vulnerable children being failed by cuts to crucial protection services

Everywhere but inner London suffering from depressed job growth and temp work boom

Party leader insists dialogue with employers is the only answer and refuses to support July's two million-worker strike

Shady construction bosses fail to get their hands on victimised workers’ private data

Trade unionists urge members to say Yes to biggest public-sector walkout in years

Union leaders criticise coalition posturing as cost-of-living crisis deepens

Charity bosses urged not to exploit forced labour available through Con-Dem “workfare” programme which begins today

Racism row further engulfs Ukip as election candidate suggest actor and comedian Lenny Henry should go and live in a 'black country' if he thinks ethnic minorities are under-represented on British TV

Three courts in England begin pilots of a new scheme allowing vulnerable witnesses and victims to give their best evidence to criminal trials before those trials begin