The Strikes (Minimum Service Levels) Bill (“MSB”)is another legislative episode in the never-ending ‘death by a thousand cuts’ of trade unions’ ability to mount an effective lawful industrial action. As it is …
UK: Strikes (Minimum Service Levels) Bill
Here is the full text of the proposed UK Strikes Minimum Services Levels Bill
UK ministers announce anti-strike law to enforce ‘minimum service levels’
Ministers have announced anti-strike legislation to enforce “minimum service levels” in six key public services including the NHS and schools as Rishi Sunak scrambles to get a grip on industrial disputes. The …
Nepalese recruitment agency directors handed slavery order
Two directors of a Nepalese recruitment agency suspected of exploiting vulnerable workers by charging them thousands of pounds in fees have been handed a Slavery and Trafficking Risk Order (STRO). …
Indonesian migrant workers in the UK: More than 200 people repatriated, some ‘unpaid and have to mortgage houses’
The Indonesian Ministry of Manpower asked the migrant worker placement company, PT Al Zubara, not to collect the short departure fees for workers in the UK who are still in …
Civil Liability for Human Rights Violations: A Handbook for Practitioners
“In 2019 – 2022, the Bonavero Institute of Human Rights led the project on civil liability for human rights violations funded by the Oak Foundation (Project). The Project involved a comparative …
India trade deal ‘would open UK to goods produced by child labour and modern slavery’
Unions representing tens of millions of workers in India are calling on Britain to suspend talks on a trade deal with the country, warning it would open UK markets to goods produced by child labour and …
UK authorities face court action on Xinjiang
British authorities are being taken to court this month after campaigners took legal action over their failure to block imports of cotton made with forced labour in the Xinjiang region …
UK Unions launch legal challenge against government’s ‘strike breaking’ agency worker law
Trade unions have launched legal proceedings against the UK government, arguing that new laws allowing companies to use agency workers to break strikes are a “broad daylight” attack on the …
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The Anti-Strike Law is a Historic Attack on Workers’ Rights
The Strikes (Minimum Service Levels) Bill is extraordinary for the power it gives to the government to deny to workers what is universally regarded as a fundamental human right. A …