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Zero-hours contracts
Employers are using zero-hours contracts to cut wage bills, study finds
...A quarter of employers who hire staff on zero-hours and other flexible contracts do so in order to cut their wage bill, according to a study that will fuel calls for reforms to boost workers’ rights....
April 24, 2024
Special ReportWomen in Business
US unions woo female workers on gender pay gaps
...In the past year, high-profile strikes leading to new contracts — including those by the United Auto Workers and Hollywood screenwriters — have “set a tone for the country that organised labour was back,...
March 8, 2024
FT Live
US Pharma and Biotech Summit
Strategies for innovation, pricing and access
Thursday, 16 MayNew York, NY, USA
Trades Union Congress
TUC calls for law to protect UK workers when employers use AI
...The UK needs new laws to protect workers whose employers use artificial intelligence tools to hire, fire or manage them, the Trades Union Congress said on Thursday, warning that Britain was “losing the race...
April 17, 2024
Unions
VW workers in Tennessee vote to join union in win for US labour movement
...Workers at a Volkswagen plant in Chattanooga, Tennessee voted to form a union on Friday, the first victory in the United Auto Workers’ campaign to build on last year’s strike against the Detroit Three by...
April 20, 2024
News in-depthEmployment
Warehouse operators turn to entertainment and food facilities to attract workers
...Unions have warned that facilities such as sports courts will do little to ease the physical strain on workers, who face pressure to meet the intense demand for rapid deliveries....
January 3, 2024
Nestlé S.A.
Nestlé shareholders call on food giant to reduce reliance on unhealthy products
...“A proportional target would require us to weaken valuable parts of our portfolio and create opportunities for competitors without yielding public health benefits.”...
March 14, 2024
FT Live
Global Pharma and Biotech Summit
Driving life sciences innovation in a disrupted world
Tuesday, 5 NovemberIn-Person & Online Conference
Letter
Letter: Ministerial assurances on biosecurity border checks
...Lord Douglas-MillerMinister for Biosecurity, Animal Health and Welfare, Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, London SW1, UK...
April 23, 2024
News in-depthUK social care
Long hours and large debts: care workers stranded by UK’s migration policy
...Sir Julian Hartley, chief executive of NHS Providers, which represents health organisations across England, said the latest migration data showed how urgent it was to fund a plan to resolve the workforce...
November 28, 2023
Sustainability
Radical food system overhaul would raise costs but deliver $10tn a year benefit, report says
...The environmental cost of existing food systems stood at $3tn a year and the additional costs to health were at least $11tn, the research from the Food System Economics Commission estimated....
January 29, 2024
Working It
Will AI make us happier?
...The US already has dedicated pet-benefit conferences, and some employers offer “pawternity” leave....
March 27, 2024
UK immigration
New UK worker visa rules to close system to employers in key shortage areas
...This will be true of roles recommended for inclusion on the list — including welders, bricklayers, workers in racing stables and health workers outside the NHS — and occupations that could be considered...
February 23, 2024
Work Watch
Menopause support must tread a fine line between awareness and stigma
...A menopause-friendly employer tends to be a good overall employer in terms of supporting a range of health and wellbeing concerns.”...
March 24, 2024
Disrupted Times
It’s not me, it’s you: gig workers send Valentine’s message to employers
...In the UK, gig workers received a setback when the Supreme Court ruled in November that Deliveroo riders could not be recognised as workers in an employment relationship or represented by trade unions for...
February 14, 2024
FT Schools
Geography class: Iceland to harvest more corn and less bitcoin, says PM
...Specification: IB DP Geography — Food and health Click to read the article below and then answer the questions: Iceland to harvest more corn and less bitcoin, says PM What percentage of the cereals that...
March 31, 2024
Israel-Hamas war
Benjamin Netanyahu admits Israeli forces killed aid workers
...The World Health Organization said last week that the health system in the strip was “barely surviving”....
April 2, 2024
FT Live
Infrastructure Investment in Latin America and the Caribbean
Identifying opportunities for investors and asset managers
Wednesday, 12 June237 Park Avenue, New York, NY, USA
National Health Service
Nearly one in 10 NHS staff sexually harassed at work
...Alan Lofthouse, acting deputy head of health at the union Unison, said the number of sexually motivated incidents was “shocking”, adding: “Employers need to do more to ensure everyone working in the NHS,...
March 7, 2024
Working It podcast14 min listen
When loyal workers are bad for business
...Most people think of loyalty as a good thing, but in a professional context, being too devoted to an employer can have damaging consequences....
April 23, 2024
Employment
UK trade union law breaches workers’ rights, Supreme Court finds
...The panel of five judges were ruling on a case brought by Unison, the UK’s biggest union, on behalf of Fiona Mercer — a care worker whose employer suspended her when she became involved in a dispute over...
April 17, 2024
Biotech
Investors pile into psychedelic drug start-ups tackling mental health
...health treatments and clinics, according to three people familiar with discussions....
February 10, 2024
Italian economy
Italian employers oversubscribe visa lottery for non-EU workers
...and carers in health and social settings....
December 1, 2023
Emma Jacobs
The bottle and the blues: how different generations respond to stress
...— that’s a clear net benefit”....
January 23, 2024
Chinese society
China’s ageing tech workers hit by ‘curse of 35’
...The average age of the worker in China is 38.3, according to the All-China Federation of Trade Unions....
April 23, 2024
News updates from April 5: US jobs growth outstrips forecasts in March; Thames Water parent company defaults on debt
Mercedes-Benz workers in Alabama latest in US to call for vote to join UAW
...Workers at a Mercedes-Benz factory in Alabama have called for a vote to join the United Auto Workers union, part of a wider campaign to unionise foreign-owned auto plants that has also targeted Toyota and...
April 5, 2024
News in-depthAutomobiles
How VW and Toyota became the targets of an emboldened US union
...Instead, Hohenshell sees a different motive: Toyota wants to halt the march of the United Auto Workers. “It’s a bribe,” he said....
April 4, 2024
Transcript
Transcript: When loyal workers are bad for business
...They see little benefit in just keeping their head down and cracking on and really following orders....
April 24, 2024

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