Here are two highlights from new research carried out by the No Shit Sherlock! Department: 1. Migrant workers are more likely to be working as temps or in insecure work (for example not having a written contract) than any other workers. 2. Recent migrant workers are more than twice as likely as other workers to be earning less than the appropriate NMW for their age. We could have guessed the first...

MEPs are voting later today on whether to abolish the UK's derogation on the Working Time Directive that allows workers to choose whether or not they want to work more than 40 hours per week. The EU is a socialist behemoth and naturally supports abolishing the rights of workers to decide how many hours they work but in the real world businesses and workers are worried. For some people, workin...

Via the ever-amusing Mark Wadsworth comes this marvelous research: 1. Migrant workers are more likely to be working as temps or in insecure work (for example not having a written contract) than any other workers. 2. Recent migrant workers are more than twice as likely as other workers to be earning less than the appropriate NMW for their age. Wow. I'm stunned. Leaving aside the fatuity that i...

The European Parliament yesterday passed the Agency Workers Directive, which will give temporary workers in the UK the same guarantees in terms of pay, working hours, maternity and annual leave as permanent staff after only 12 weeks with a company. The proposal has come under criticism over fears that it will worsen unemployment and increase the cost to businesses.

When Gordon Brown promised "British jobs for British workers", he had no intention of stopping citizens of European Union countries from working in the UK. So what did he mean? Clearly not what workers at the Lindsey oil refinery in Lincolnshire thought he meant. On Friday, they began strike action over the recruitment of more than 300 Italian and Portuguese workers to a new construction project. ...

Hundreds of thousands of agency workers across the UK will benefit from improved working conditions when the new equal treatment rights for temps come into effect on Saturday (1 October). Unlike fixed-term employees and part-time workers, until now agency workers have not had a right to the same pay and holiday rights as directly employed staff

Right Democrat has some information on the Employee Free Choice Act from Catholics for Working Families: America’s working people are struggling to make ends meet, CEOs have all the power and our middle class is disappearing. The best opportunity for working men and women to get ahead is by uniting with co-workers to bargain with their employers for better wages and benefits. But the current lab...

As the financial turmoil begins to affect us all, who will bear the brunt of it?'   Young workers:- have worse pay and working conditions than older workers can legally be paid even less thanks to a lower minimum wage are often working in vulnerable employment and frequently are the first to be let go when the employer makes redundancies are less likely to a a trade union member and to k...

I really doubt this is a shock to anyone. Story Britain has taken in around four times as many workers from Europe as there are Britons working in the EU, a report has revealed. Analysis of official figures by the Migrationwatch think tank found there were 1,172,000 people born in Europe working in the UK in the last three months of last year. At the same time around 286,000 British-born workers h...

from Prisma Working for over eight years since its revival in 2002, the Latin American Workers Association (Lawas) has led numerous campaigns towards helping Latin American workers maintain their self-respect and improve their workers’ rights as well as their quality of life. Since it started, Lawas has carried out an enormous task with regards to the Trade