The EU Mutual Recognition of Professional Qualifications Directive – or MRPQ – is a fundamental component of the Single Market. It allows professionals to have their qualifications, obtained in one member state, recognised in another.
Do British workers really not want to work in the NHS? No, they want to, but they struggle first to find the money to train, then to live on the wages. And have been reluctant to fight for pay…
Until the latter part of the 19th century, paid holidays hardly existed for workers in Britain. So how and when were they won? (A clue: not by the EU)
As negotiations on Brexit begin, a new pamphlet cuts through the hard/soft waffle that dominates the media…
The phrase “we are all living longer” has been a well rehearsed slogan to justify an endless attack on state and occupational pension entitlement.
On 29 March the government gave formal notice that Britain will depart from the EU once and for all time. Now Article 50 has been invoked and the clock is ticking.
While the online shopping giants get spectacularly rich, the workers who deliver to your home face zero hours contracts and long hours for minimal pay. Workers has been investigating the hidden world of the couriers…
Building the new Britain means building new railways, making the equipment here in Britain, and running the rail network in the way we decide, for the benefit of the people.
Manchester is now top of the table for growth in house prices, having increased by 8.8 per cent in the year ending February.
Across large parts of Britain houses and flats are not even being built to be homes – just investments…
Internal devolution divides the people of Britain. Like membership of the European Union it will poison our future unless we act. The current undemocratic engineering going on in Manchester shows why it needs to be fought…
A worker under EU and UK employment law has limited if very few employment rights compared with an employee who has contractual and statutory rights.
Self-employment was a nice wheeze to falsify the real state of full-time employment. But it’s spiralled out of control and created a £3.5+ billion black hole in Treasury planning. But it’s workers who suffer the most…
Fishermen are overwhelmingly in favour of Britain taking complete control of its inshore and international waters as it leaves the EU, according to a new survey.
A Concert for Unity in Glasgow is set to help boost the renewed campaign to finally defeat separatism
A sharp increase in inflation means millions of students and former students will see a rise in interest rates on tuition and maintenance loans this year.
Plans are being made to convert offices into flats as small as 16 square metres.
The London Taxi Company is aiming to produce 5,000 electric vehicles a year by 2019 at the first new car factory in Britain for more than a decade.
With independence from the EU in sight, Britain itself is far from "shipshape and Bristol fashion" – and Bristol itself is a prime example of this.
With a rise in the minimum wage coming into effect on 1 April, the Low Pay Commission has published its analysis of the impact of the National Minimum Wage introduced by the Treasury in 2016.
