Workers on zero-hours contracts earn nearly £300 a week less than permanent employees, according to a new report. A study by the TUC showed that average weekly earnings for zero-hours
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Staff at leading housing charity Shelter are to stage a three day strike in a row over pay. Unite said its 400 members will walk out from next Tuesday in
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The Government has been accused of lying over NHS pay as hundreds of thousands of health workers including midwives, nurses, radiographers, cleaners and psychiatric staff stage their second strike in
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A deal to end a long-running row over health workers’ pay has been agreed in Wales. The Welsh Government said unions have accepted a two-year deal. Health workers in England
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The Government has been accused of “deliberate misrepresentation” over health workers’ pay amid a fresh attack on the coalition’s controversial decision not to accept a recommended 1% wage rise. The
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Too many care workers are being “treated shabbily” in a sector where the zero hours culture is “deeply entrenched”, a Labour MP has warned. Andrew Smith branded it a “scandal”
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Staff at three high security psychiatric hospitals will go on strike today in the bitter dispute with the Government over health workers’ pay. Members of the Prison Officers Association at
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A think-tank report presented findings from a survey of people with long-term health conditions, which asked their views on self-managing their conditions and having more of a say over their
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The GMB union and Care England have written a joint open letter to Councillor David Sparks OBE Chair of Local Government Association (LGA) setting out a joint concern over earnings
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Hundreds of thousands of health workers have walked out on strike, many for the first time in their lives, in protest at the Government’s decision not to give them a
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