Scottish Labour’s reluctant embrace of the devolution of employment law marks a reversal from the Smith Commission days – and raises questions about why other powers shouldn’t also be devolved

SCOTTISH LABOUR leader Richard Leonard spoke to the annual congress of the Scottish Trades Union Congress on Monday [15 April] in Dundee, and brought the party into line with long-standing STUC policy on employment law

New statistics from the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) reveal "worrying attitudes" to women from employers

BRITISH EMPLOYERS are still decades behind the law and have worrying attitudes to unlawful behaviour when it comes to recruiting women, a new report by the EHRC has found. 

A survey 1,106 senior decision makers in business found that a third (36 per cent) of private sector employers agree that it is reasonable to ask women about their plans to have children in the future during recruitment.

New policy paper advocates an immigration system for Scotland based around workers’ rights

IMMIGRATION AND EMPLOYMENT LAW should be devolved to the Scottish Parliament, a new policy paper from the pro-independence think tank Common Weal has argued.