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A FOSTER CARER who claims she is entitled to employment rights launched a legal claim against a local authority yesterday in what could become a landmark case.
Sarah Anderson, who is engaged by Hampshire County Council, argues that she is a worker and should be entitled to holiday pay and other rights.
The Independent Workers’ Union of Great Britain (IWGB), which filed a claim for employment status and unpaid holiday to a tribunal on her behalf, says the result could benefit thousands of foster-care workers.
The unions are unhappy with the Employment Rights Act 2025 and with good reason. KEITH EWING and Lord JOHN HENDY KC take a close look at why the Bill promised more than it delivered
Labour’s watered-down legislation won’t protect us from unfair dismissal or ban some zero-hours contracts until 2027 — leaving millions of young people vulnerable to the populist right’s appeal, warns TUC young workers chair FRASER MCGUIRE
It is only trade union power at work that will materially improve the lot of working people as a class but without sector-wide collective bargaining and a right to take sympathetic strike action, we are hamstrung in the fight to tilt back the balance of power, argues ADRIAN WEIR
