The Low Pay Commission is the independent body that advises the government on the level of the minimum wage. They are gathering evidence in support of its 2019 report.
This consultation closes on 7 June 2019.
The government should introduce a shorter route to permanent status for long-resident children with lower application fees that do not make a profit for the Home Office.
This is according to the State of Children’s Rights in England 2018 by the Children’s Rights Alliance for England.
The current government focus on apprenticeships and traineeships has the potential to enhance single parents’ take-up and progression in work.
This is according to the March 2019 report (pdf) from Gingerbread on barriers that inhibit single parents from accessing and progressing in apprenticeships.
The impact of massive cuts in central government funding of local government since 2010 has been ‘destructive and debilitating’ for women. This is according to
‘It is clear that we need to think innovatively to reimagine work in a way that will enable us to react to a changed and
The Work and Pensions Committee published the government’s response (pdf) to its report on benefit sanctions, in February 2019. The government: accepts the recommendation to
The Department for business, energy and industrial strategy is seeking views on extending redundancy protection for women and new parents.
The deadline for responses is 5 April 2019.
Tell MAMA and GMB Yorkshire have launched a toolkit (pdf), released October 2018, to help people seek redress if they are targeted for hatred or
We recommend that the Government publish and maintain a definitive list of all organisations that fall within the scope of the Gender Pay Gap Regulations.
This is one of the recommendations from the Government on the Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy Committee’s report on the Gender Pay gap (pdf), in January 2019.
‘The Brexit vote came in part as an outcome of the aforementioned inequalities’, says the December 2018 report (pdf) from the Centre for Labour and Social Studies (CLASS) on Brexit and inequality.
