Insight
Coronavirus: Support for workers during local lockdowns
What support is available following new business restrictions and what's Parliament's role?
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Debate Pack
Fire and re-hire tactics: Opposition Day debate
An Opposition Day debate was scheduled on the subject of 'Fire and re-hire tactics' on Wednesday 14th October 2020.
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Debate Pack
Opposition day debate: Protection of jobs and businesses
An Opposition Day debate on the ‘Protection of jobs and businesses’ following the Coronavirus outbreak has been scheduled for Wednesday 9 September 2020.
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Research Briefing
Coronavirus: Quarantine and employment rights
This Commons Library Briefing Paper discusses the rights of workers who are required to self-isolate after travelling abroad (quarantine). It provides an overview of the quarantine rules and discusses how this could impact on issues such as pay and disciplinary action against workers who are required to quarantine.
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Research Briefing
Coronavirus: Business re-opening
This Commons Library Briefing Paper discusses business closure and re-opening across the UK. It considered which businesses were required to close under the four lockdown regulations and how each of the four nations are lifting these regulations. As well as looking at which businesses can re-open it outlines the steps that they must take to do so safely.
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Research Briefing
Coronavirus: Does everyone have to go back to work from 1 August?
From 1 August the Government will be relaxing the guidance on working from home in England. This Insight explores what this new announcement means for employers and for employees.
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Insight
Coronavirus: Does everyone have to go back to work from 1 August?
From 1 August the Government will be relaxing the guidance on working from home in England. This Insight explores what this new announcement means for employers and for employees.
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Research Briefing
Worker exploitation in UK clothing supply chains
This Insight discusses exploitation in UK garment factories, how workers’ rights are enforced, and the calls to make companies responsible for rights violations in their supply chains.
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Insight
Worker exploitation in UK clothing supply chains
This Insight discusses exploitation in UK garment factories, how workers’ rights are enforced, and the calls to make companies responsible for rights violations in their supply chains.
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Debate Pack
Estimates Day: HMRC spending on job retention scheme and support for the self- employed
An Estimates Day debate on 'HMRC spending on job retention scheme and support for the self- employed' has been scheduled for 7 July 2020.
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Research Briefing
Coronavirus: Support for household finances
This Commons Library briefing paper outlines the measures introduced by the Government, and other authorities, to support household finances during the coronavirus (Covid-19) outbreak.
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Research Briefing
The UK-EU future relationship negotiations: Level playing field
The so-called level playing field - rules on competition, state aid, taxation, labour and environmental standards, and climate change - are one of the main causes of disagreement between the UK and EU in the negotiations on their future partnership. This paper explains the commitments that both parties are proposing in these areas in order to come to a deal.
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Research Briefing
The UK-EU future relationship negotiations: summary of positions
The tables in this paper provide a summary of the UK and EU positions in the future relationship negotiations, based on their proposed draft treaty texts and other publicly available statements
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Research Briefing
50 years of the Equal Pay Act
This Insight looks at the history of the Equal Pay Act, how the law works today and how it might be reformed in the future.
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Insight
50 years of the Equal Pay Act
This Insight looks at the history of the Equal Pay Act, how the law works today and how it might be reformed in the future.
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