by Agency Reporter | Jun 21, 2021 | Briefing
THE TUC HAS CALLED for Long COVID to be urgently recognised as a disability, and Covid-19 as an occupational disease, to give workers access to legal protections and compensation. The call comes as the TUC publishes an in-depth report on workers’ experiences of long...
by Agency Reporter | Jun 20, 2021 | Briefing
LIBRARIES HAVE A VITAL ROLE TO PLAY in helping to build back following the pandemic, says the Local Government Association (LGA) of England, with many libraries already supporting children to recover from missed classroom time and helping to plug the widening...
by Staff Writer | Jun 19, 2021 | Briefing
UNHCR, THE UN REFUGEE AGENCY, has urged world leaders to step up their efforts to foster peace, stability and cooperation in order to halt and begin reversing nearly a decade-long trend of surging displacement driven by violence and persecution. Despite the pandemic,...
by Agency Reporter | Jun 19, 2021 | Briefing
NEW POLLING IN A REPORT published by the TUC reveals an emerging class divide in England, as some workers opt to keep working from home while those who can’t work from home have little access to any forms of flexible working. The number of workers who work from home...
by Agency Reporter | Jun 18, 2021 | Briefing
THE WORLD HEALTH ORGANISATION’S latest estimates, published on 17 June 2021 in Suicide worldwide in 2019, finds that suicide remains one of the leading causes of death worldwide. Every year, more people die as a result of suicide than HIV, malaria, breast...
by Agency Reporter | Jun 18, 2021 | Briefing
QUAKERS IN BRITAIN have joined people from other faith and belief bodies in appealing to the prime minister to protect the Human Rights Act. In January 2021, the government instigated an independent review of the UK’s Human Rights Act. This will report at the end of...
