The result of normalising Reform’s ideas? Neighbour is turned against neighbour | Nesrine Malik

Great piece on how the threat of criminal sanctions can have a role in focusing the minds of employers who seek to 'buy out' their labour law obligations.....

A new blog for Social Europe, drawing from a recent keynote. I argue that AI at work is not just about efficiency. It is about managerial power, workers’ voice, and democracy. If democracy is eroded at work, it does not stay there. It reverberates into society www.socialeurope.eu/silicon-vall...

Important @ieruk.bsky.social briefing by Prof. Ruth Dukes and Prof. David Whyte setting out key recommendations on what is needed for the Fair Work Agency to ensure workers rights are protected in practice and not just on paper: www.ier.org.uk/publications...

Fair Work Agency’s priorities criticised days before its launch. Cornerstone of the UK’s Employment Rights Act ‘in danger of becoming a dead duck’, says @unitetheunion.bsky.social General Secretary. Look out for our detailed Briefing on the FWA tomorrow. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

I’ve spent the last year investigating how the UK's broken employment tribunal system lets rogue bosses evade justice. But this is the craziest case,by far. A restaurant chain that lost 21 tribunal claims over several years, yet never paid a single one🧵 www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2026...

"this is a structural design that disproportionately harms Black women... Employers are using childcare as a weapon, they use visa dependence as a leverage, they are using the vulnerability of migrant Black women to extract labour”

📫 We have written to the Home Secretary to strongly oppose the UK Gov's earned settlement proposals and express concerns that they risk causing harm, undermining the rule of law, and raise serious questions about compliance with international rights obligations. justfair.org.uk/moving-the-g...

⚠️New @ippr.org research: 300,000 children will be hit by the Govt’s earned settlement plans. Retrospective changes will deepen child poverty, block access to higher education & trap families in years of uncertainty. This is precarity by design. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

"Let them drink beer"

In Hungary, almost half a million older people receive pensions that leave them living below the poverty line. In a new report, HRW shows how the Hungarian government is failing to ensure older people’s rights to social security and an adequate standard of living. Read more: https://bit.ly/4jBH4VG

Just Fair's statement on the UK Government's proposed asylum 'reforms' "This is a critical moment for the UK, a time for deep reflection on what kind of country we are, and what kind of country we want to be" There is an alternative to advancing division and cruelty

In 2023 @tom-clark.bsky.social got me to write a chapter for his book on UK poverty about how immigration limbo, which Labour wants more of, makes people destitute. It was the most distressing piece I've ever worked on. We sent a copy to every MP. www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/society/6081...

‘Government sources said rules that mean most asylum seekers are not allowed to have jobs will not change.’ It’s absurd that the govt chooses to continue with a rule that puts asylum seekers in a situation of dependency, then attacks then for needing ‘handouts’ www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

The response to Lam's comments should be a swift, decisive and clear rejection of them ..... this is not that

Great video from our friends @savechildrenuk.bsky.social The government must scrap the two-child limit.

As the #UCBill (without PIP) returns to UK Parliament for its third (and final?) reading, my post for @hrw.org www.hrw.org/news/2025/07... The watered-down version of the Bill will still negatively affect many with disabilities and long term health conditions. The government should scrap it.

Pitting one group against another... in the spending cuts olympics. Here the two-child limit. See also the ideas floated on cutting spending on education and health care plans for children with special educational needs. Why can't politics be based on rights rather than a race to the bottom?

Version of the classic 1936 poster. "Aixafem el feixisme" (Let’s crush fascism) by Pere Català i Pic. This one also reads "No to fascism. Neither on the streets, nor in the town halls." From the 2023 Catalan municipal elections. Damn, this is an image for our times...

"cruelty charter" - excellent piece from @johnharris1969.bsky.social on the UK Government's social security proposals www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

💚 Never forget.

LA's domestic violence service providers talk to @juliannemcshane.bsky.social about ICE's chilling effect on their organizations and the undocumented survivors they serve. “She literally had to choose: physical harm or potential [ICE] custody.”

MAJOR UPDATE Thanks to a series of FOI requests, we've found that less than 4% of exploited migrant care workers found new work through a multi-million pound government scheme. (A thread🧵) www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

The Immigration White Paper is set on reducing net migration at all costs, including by blaming migrant workers for their own exploitation. While we work on more in-depth analysis, here’s our initial response.

1/7: At today’s Spring Statement, the government announced yet more panicked cuts to vital support for disabled people. The government also set out more detail about the impact that its huge cuts to support will have on disabled people 🧵

Just a few weeks ago the United Nations Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights recommended the UK ‘adopt a more efficient, progressive and socially just fiscal policy’ and increase the budget for social security (amongst other areas) to protect people’s rights 1/7

The right to an adequate standard of living is a human right under international human rights law. As is the right to social security. The UK ratified a treaty promising to uphold these rights in 1976, almost 50 years ago. And yet here we are.

She could have not gone. Or paid for tickets but then accepted seating in a box for security reasons. There were other choices. “The right thing to do” may need more thought. Esp. in a context when you oversee policy that leaves people “choosing” between turning on the lights & feeding their kids…..

This. The incoherence of policy making is hard to comprehend.

What is the moral case for this? www.bigissue.com/news/social-...

"Britain’s social security system has been stripped to the bones: it provides neither security nor enough support to those who receive it." An excellent article from @ruthpatrick0.bsky.social & @aaronreeves.bsky.social exploring the government's planned welfare cuts: bit.ly/41AkTa1

Earlier this month UN CESCR also expressed concern, in Concluding Observations of its review of the UK, about the risk of exploitation faced by migrant workers under certain visa schemes and recommended the UK Govt ensures elimination of exploitative practices tbinternet.ohchr.org/_layouts/15/...

Labour MPs saying “the clue is in the name” to justify benefit cuts is wildly disingenuous. It co-opts Labour’s history to imply all those that cannot physically labour are somehow excluded from the cause. Being pro-worker does not require being anti-unemployed or anti-disabled. It never did.

"The UK presents itself as a global leader in human rights, but these findings tell a different story. These problems are not just a result of past actions; the current government continues to make decisions that undermine rights." - Jess McQuail, Director, Just Fair www.bigissue.com/news/social-...

Excellent piece in the @bigissue.com by @lgeraghty23.bsky.social on the conclusions of the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights on the UK. The article begins with social security, and goes on to cover a range of recommendations on housing, wages, work, poverty reduction & measurement

Ready for day 2 of the UN CESCR review of the UK @justfairuk.bsky.social

🚨 Today we are in Geneva - presenting our latest submission to the UN on the state of everyday rights in the UK. Our message is simple, the system is broken and it’s time to incorporate our everyday rights into UK law. 1/5