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Government plans to move to a fairer and simpler benefits system will be undermined if they are accompanied by deep cuts to hard-pressed middle income families, the TUC warns today (Friday) in its submission to the Government consultation on welfare reform.
The new laws will go some way towards protecting staff, but we need a full equality act to get through tough times ahead, says UNISON
Opportunity to set out plans for reform
UCU today (Monday) said the UK risked undermining its position as a global leader in higher education if it pushed ahead with huge increases in university fees and allowed universities to go to the wall.
UCU today (Monday) said that if the forthcoming review into student funding, led by Lord Browne, simply advocated ways of squeezing more money out of students then it would have 'spectacularly failed its remit.'
Analysis by UCU of fees charged by publiclyfunded universities around the world reveals that increasing fees to £5,000ayear would be enough to give England the unenviable tag of supplier of the world's most expensive degrees.
Nearly one million workers will benefit when the adult national minimum wage (NMW) increases by 13p to £5.93 per hour today (Friday) says the TUC.
The shopworkers Union Usdaw has welcomed today's increase in the National Minimum Wage and has again called on the Coalition Government to commit to an annual review and increase of all rates.
The shopworkers Union Usdaw has welcomed the arrival of the Equality Act, the first provisions of which finally come into force today Friday 1 October.