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Equal pay settlements for female workers at local councils have passed the £1bn mark, with thousands more expected next year.Legal claims have been brought against local…

California State University, Fullerton, (above) is one of the 22 campuses where teamsters are prepared to strike. David McNew/Getty Images Members of Teamsters Local 2010, a…

Toyota, the world’s biggest carmaker, is using retro-style video games to rally its US workforce behind its corporate goals, including lobbying to relax environmental rules, the…

John Fingleton’s claim that health and safety rules are holding UK infrastructure back (Report, 12 December) is not only wrong, it’s dangerous. Stripping back protections in the…

Will the employment rights bill be passed by Christmas? Well, the chances are slightly improved after six leading business groups published a temperature-lowering letter on Monday…

Lucknow, India – Harshit Verma believes his 50-year-old father, Vijay Kumar Verma, died because he was handling an “inhuman task”.Vijay, a contractual government teacher in Lucknow,…

Britain’s biggest business groups have urged Conservative peers to stop blocking Labour’s landmark workers’ rights bill in the House of Lords to avoid throwing away a…

On a cold January day in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, workers at a Whole Foods Market store in the heart of the city made history. Organizers won a…

Angela Rayner says Labour must not ‘blink or buckle’ any more on workers’ rights as she defends compromise on billGood morning. Last night the employment rights…

The OCR employees were fired in March as part of a broader reduction in force at the Education Department. Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images The Education…