Zero-hours contracts and English employment Law: Developments and possibilities

“The UK has seen a dramatic growth in precarious work over recent decades, including the amorphous category of ‘zero-hours contracts’ which are often regarded as a paradigm example of an …

Train strike: UK government’s plan to replace strikers with agency workers failed in 2015 – it still won’t work today

As the UK government faces the prospect of a summer of strikes, it has reintroduced plans to change the law so agency workers can be hired to replace striking workers. While this will …

Migrant care workers came to help the UK. Now they’re trapped in debt bondage

Meera Stephen came to Britain with a big suitcase and even bigger dreams. The 27-year-old had left Kerala in south India to work at a care home in Manchester, one …

UK: Agency Workers as Strike-Breakers: ILO Convention 87, and the EU-UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement

The current law prohibits agencies from supplying workers to perform ‘duties normally performed by a worker who is taking part in a strike. In responding to the rail dispute, the …

GMB union takes Bolt to tribunal over employment rights

One of the UK’s largest trade unions is taking legal action against Bolt in a bid to force the ride-hailing service to reclassify its drivers as workers so they get …

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Britain hands billions to projects linked to labour abuse and climate damage

The British government has provided more than £5bn in the past three years to overseas energy and infrastructure projects linked to labour abuses and environmental damage, according to documents and …

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The P&O debacle shows that UK labour law needs an overhaul

“A few years ago, P&O ferries with names like Spirit of Britain and Pride of Kent were under the UK flag with mostly UK-based crew on an average salary of …

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Indian supplier to UK fashion brands agrees to pay £3m in unpaid wages

India’s largest garment company has paid out an estimated £3m in unpaid wages to tens of thousands of workers, after two years of refusing to pay the legal minimum wage. …

The Future of Unions and Worker Representation: The Digital Picket Line

“The current organising drive at Starbucks stores across the USA illustrates both the difficulty for unions in countering the power of multinational companies – and, more importantly, the momentum that can be …

Christopher Johnson v. Transopco UK Ltd.

Here is the judgment from UK Employment Appeal Tribunal finding no employment relationship. Mr_Christopher_Johnson_v_Transopco_UK_Ltd__2022__EAT_6

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