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• Help boost protection for pregnant women and new parents

  06-09-2022 16:16
  UNISON is urging members to call on their MPs to support the second reading of a bill that would boost workplace protection for pregnant women and new parents.
  The union is concerned about how many pregnant workers are experiencing unfair treatment or discrimination at work – including being singled out for redundancy. During the pandemic, many women were forced out of their jobs because employers didn’t know the law or simply ​chose to ignore it.
  The union
  
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• Environment Agency staff overwhelmingly reject pay offer

  06-09-2022 13:56
  Thousands of Environment Agency (EA)  staff have voted in a consultation to overwhelmingly reject the current pay offer of 2% plus a £345 consolidated increase, together with increases to some allowances.
  With inflation topping 10% and further increases on the way, the offer, together with an unconsolidated performance award, effectively represents a pay cut.
  EA staff had asked for a pay increase above the rate of inflation after a 0% pay increase in 2021 and the current offer fell we
  
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• Blog: The time to act on the cost of living is now, prime minister

  06-09-2022 12:38
  Liz Truss believes Boris Johnson was a marvellous prime minister – and he agrees with her. I watched the news in disbelief as the shamed, outgoing PM made his self-aggrandising, final farewell speech from the steps of Number 10.
  How could he be more concerned with his memories of space-hoppers and his own future career than showing remorse for the trail of crises that he leaves behind him?
  His debasement of the integrity and probity of the highest public office in the country was only conf
  
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