What you need to know about work this week:
Staying afloat: Just shy of a year after the P&O Ferries scandal which saw the firm sack 800 workers without notice, parent company DP World has been awarded the contract to co-run the Thames Freeport in Essex. The TUC has slammed the decision for enabling employers "to act with impunity".
'Running on exploitation': Faced with a shortage of home-grown labour, British farms are relying on migrants who face systematic bullying, abuse and growing debt. This investigation by the Bureau of Investigative Journalism and VICE World News has shocking details.
Reasonable adjustments: More than two-thirds of workers suffering with long Covid are being treated unfairly by their employers, according to new research from the TUC and charity Long Covid Support.
Dystopian: Surveillance techniques to monitor the activity and of remote workers are more likely to affect young people, women and ethnic minorities, the Institute for Public Policy Research has warned, calling for more regulation to prevent “disastrous consequences for the mental and physical wellbeing of the workforce”.
Rishi’s tax returns: Our multi-millionaire prime minister has paid, on average, 22 per cent tax on his income in the last three years — the same as a nurse — and saved £300,000 in tax thanks to a cut he voted for in 2016. The Guardian’s Kiran Stacey and Jessica Elgot have done the maths.
Give and take: A third of employers would be open to shifting to a four-day working week, on the condition that employees work from the office, according to new research, while more than half of employees would be willing to give working from home for an extra day off.
Fighting back: Matt Wrack, leader of the Fire Brigades Union, has called on trade unions to unite against the government’s planned anti-strike law, the Minimum Service Levels Bill, through a campaign of coordinated resistance and disobedience.
