A few weeks ago this Reform rising star went on LBC & said young people were being paid too much,citing his experience in hospitality. So we looked into his companies & found 3 tribunal judgments for failure to pay wages, holiday pay & provide contracts www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2025...

A few weeks ago this Reform rising star went on LBC & said young people were being paid too much,citing his experience in hospitality. So we looked into his companies & found 3 tribunal judgments for failure to pay wages, holiday pay & provide contracts www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2025...

'Nursing leaders told the Guardian the plans were “immoral” and treated highly skilled migrants as “political footballs”. They said a mass exodus of nurses would threaten patient safety'. Combine this with the number of UK universities shrinking or closing their nursing programmes....

The FCA is consulting on plans to anonymise the short positions data it publishes. Currently anyone can see which firms have positions >0.5% in UK stocks. The firm with the most short positions today is Marshall Wace. Paul Marshall funds GB News, he and Ian Wace previously funded the Conservatives.

Islamophobic and racist AI-generated posts aimed at Brits helped make one Sri Lankan influencer rich – and now he’s sharing his formula

I've been investigating the huge levels of exploitation faced by workers on the seasonal worker visa for the last few years, and have often asked myself why the trade union movement has ignored these workers. So I spoke to unions, big and small, to try and answer that question.

Great work by @mellino.bsky.social Why no one is organising seasonal workers? We've discussed with workers through 2025 @carolinerobinson.bsky.social WSC “They feel like things have been raised already, and there’s a lack of care about those issues in the UK in general – so what would change?”

Next up in our solidarities feature, this vital piece on blindspots and tensions around trade union organising to support seasonal workers. By the brilliant @mellino.bsky.social as a collab between @beyondslavery.bsky.social & @tbij.bsky.social

The seasonal worker visa’s structure impedes union organising, with workers in the country for no longer than six months. But with the scheme ongoing since the 2019 pilot and looking like it’s here to stay, it makes sense to ask whether major unions could be doing more to overcome these challenges

I've been investigating the huge levels of exploitation faced by workers on the seasonal worker visa for the last few years, and have often asked myself why the trade union movement has ignored these workers. So I spoke to unions, big and small, to try and answer that question.

Which one is more English?

Such a great piece from @tbij.bsky.social that highlights how difficult it is for workers to access and enforce their rights - it shows truly staggering figures of non-payment of tribunal awards by employers, and that's not even counting the personal cost to workers.

Vital investigative journalism. Employment lawyers please check this out.

More on this important investigative journalism about Employment Tribunals here

Incredible courage in the face of indescribable suffering. A women's film festival held in the rubble of Gaza. By Ibtisam Mahdi in @972mag.com www.972mag.com/gaza-interna...

🚨 BREAKING: The government has tabled their plan to restrict repeat protests. Demonstrations could now banned based on the 'cumulative disruption' that previous protests have caused in the area - regardless of if they have been organised by the same people or not. This is worse than we feared.

The absolute state of employment tribunals and enforcement here 🤯

Political wisdom does not in fact lie in shrinking and contorting yourself into whatever shape an imagined white conservative might find tolerable. You can be authentically, cheerfully yourself, and set your stall out on that basis.

Journalists can often be victims of their pre-conceived ideas (see the Times/De Blasio fiasco). One of the ways we've avoided that is by working closely with experts. Check out this piece by my colleague @lucybrisbane.bsky.social on how we did it in our recent employment tribunals investigation.

Demand an #EmploymentRightsBill2 ✊ We need a £15 per hour minimum wage now. Support the call to finish the job on employment rights: bit.ly/DemandERB2 #StrikeMap #EmploymentRightsBill #WorkersRights #Workers #Power #TradeUnions #UnionPower

While some journalists already know the story they want to write, @tbij.bsky.social let us show what really matters to our exploited clients. Incredible work revealing the true scale of enforcement failure @mellino.bsky.social @lucybrisbane.bsky.social www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2025...

Journalists can often be victims of their pre-conceived ideas (see the Times/De Blasio fiasco). One of the ways we've avoided that is by working closely with experts. Check out this piece by my colleague @lucybrisbane.bsky.social on how we did it in our recent employment tribunals investigation.

For our investigation into employment tribunals, we joined forces with others who wanted to see the system change Find out how we did it: www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2025...

Bill will also go back to the commons to reconsider the unfair dismissal qualifying period. Government torn to shreds on that motion

Government rather struggling in the Lords to defend a day one right to claim unfair dismissal

Lord Fox’s amendment is carried. That means the Bill must go back to the Commons! #employmentrightsbill

The removal of children on the advice of unregulated experts instructed by the family courts is a “national scandal”, the incoming victims' commissioner @ldnvictimscomm.bsky.social has told @tbij.bsky.social. She is calling for an urgent review of all Melanie Gill's cases. 🧵 tinyurl.com/bp9smemn

Even Reform’s client journalists in the right-wing London media can’t hide the party’s failure in Wales My @heraldscotland.bsky.social column www.heraldscotland.com/politics/vie...

A court has requested a Latin interpreter for today's sentencing hearing LATIN (AMERICAN) INTERPRETER REQUIRED Luckily they added (American), and someone who speaks Spanish has turned up. Otherwise the interpreter might have spent the day translating legal asides, but not much else

NEW: A mother has won a landmark legal bid to overturn the evidence of a psychologist which led to her kids being removed. For the last 5yrs she has only seen them twice a month under strict supervision based on Melanie Gill's advice to a family judge. 🧵 tinyurl.com/4z2cm2m4

I really should start a thread of "things people in politics and the media have questionably blamed on hackers"

We monitored an AI chatbot service popular with teens and found characters modelled on alt-right extremists, school shooters and even real people – including Jeffrey Epstein Character AI has millions of users – and the app has been downloaded 2m+ times in the UK alone

In the UK there's no punishment for employers who refuse to pay their workers, but @mattcole.bsky.social argues that we should follow the example of New Zealand and make non-payment of wages a criminal matter. novaramedia.com/2025/10/16/employers-who-steal-wages-should-be-made-criminally-liable/

Excellent opportunity to hear from @nataliesedacca.bsky.social @ingathiemann.bsky.social and Tomoya Obokata @uoy-yorklawschool.bsky.social on Modern Slavery and Human Rights. Tuesday 28th October. Registration details 👇

My report on a work dispute in South West London where hospital porters, cleaners and caterers claim they’ve been systematically excluded from the pay and conditions they are entitled to as NHS employees: www.newstatesman.com/politics/hea...

The Employment Rights Bill will improve workers' rights for millions, but will vulnerable groups be excluded from protections?

This is one of the obstacles workers face when trying to get the money awarded to them by employment tribunals. Our investigation found that directors shut down companies & open them up again to avoid paying tribunal awards. @georgemonbiot.bsky.social www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2025...

I'm glad the government will not introduce employment tribunal fees, but it's not true that "everyone, no matter their income" can get "access to justice" under the current system. The barriers are endless & if you overcome them & win, you still might not even get the money you are owed

If you haven’t already booked your place, time is running out to register for this important conference looking at the history of Employment Tribunals and their current day effectiveness. www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

"Glad you didn't get a penny from your claim as you don't deserve fck all...go fck yourself" That's the message a director of Crussh sent to Raf just after it went into administration.Two months earlier a tribunal had ordered Crussh to pay Raf over £30k www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2025...

Climbing down from a position that would make the situation worse back to a place where it is already terrible, is not the flex I think the deputy PM thinks it is.

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I'm glad the government will not introduce employment tribunal fees, but it's not true that "everyone, no matter their income" can get "access to justice" under the current system. The barriers are endless & if you overcome them & win, you still might not even get the money you are owed

Wage theft is theft. Governments must stop impunity for these corporate criminals.

This is a huge problem that @workrights.bsky.social have documented in the past. Crook opens company, treats workers like 💩, shafts contractors of pay - and then when sued declares insolvency, liquidates the company, starts it again under a new name - and good luck recovering your compensation.

🚨Leaked Israeli documents reveal the British army’s 77th brigade held secret exchanges with the IDF. The 77th brigade specialises in psychological operations including online propaganda activities. www.declassifieduk.org/uk-psycholog...

People should be in prison for this, but instead they’re driving around in fancy cars, starting new companies, shitting on workers all over again…

"Glad you didn't get a penny from your claim as you don't deserve fck all...go fck yourself" That's the message a director of Crussh sent to Raf just after it went into administration.Two months earlier a tribunal had ordered Crussh to pay Raf over £30k www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2025...

Thanks @jim.londoncentric.media for citing our investigation into the thousands of companies that ignore employment tribunal judgments. As it happenned one of the people we covered was Preston Benson, which @londoncentric.media did a deep-dive on days earlier www.londoncentric.media/p/preston-be...

In 2016 the UK government introduced a scheme to encourage employers to pay employment tribunal awards by threatening them with a fine if they didn't pay. But of the £9.6million pounds in fines issued, only £95,000 has been paid - less than 1%. www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2025...