workers rights

Maria Miller, Chair of the cross-party Women and Equalities Select Committee, will present a bill to Parliament on 21 May which will prohibit employers from making women redundant during pregnancy and for six months after their return from maternity leave except in exceptional circumstances.

To mark its Centenary, the International Labour Organisation is calling on governments to ratify at least one international labour standard in 2019.

Minicab drivers say congestion charge cuts their take home pay while doing little to address environmental concerns.

A federal court has blocked a North Carolina law that prevents farmworkers from organising and making collective bargaining agreements with their employers from going into effect as a legal challenge proceeds.