The 74 reports on the school-to-asylum pipeline ending due to a landmark lawsuit, reshaping educational rights for disabled ...

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In a garment factory outside Dhaka, Bangladesh, a 19-year-old worker stopped showing up. Her supervisor said she had quit. Her coworkers whispered she had reported him for harassment. There was no ...

Peter Mandelson, Britain’s former ambassador to the US, resigned from the UK’s ruling Labour Party to avoid causing it ...

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A labour rights organisation claims it has found evidence of worker exploitation in a Chinese factory that makes the viral Labubu dolls. China Labor Watch (CLW), a US-based non-governmental ...

Around a third of eligible councils in England are expected to delay their local elections, which were due to take place in May. There are fears Labour could face a wipeout in some areas amid a Reform ...

Keir Starmer is not the first Labour prime minister to be plunged into crisis by Peter Mandelson. It’s not even the first ...

Change in England largely welcomed by industry and Labour MPs but represents another climbdown Rachel Reeves has avoided another damaging rebellion against her economic policies with the promise of a ...

Just under a half of eligible councils in England have asked to postpone their elections due in May, affecting millions of voters. The government is carrying out a major overhaul of local government ...

The scrapped reform of the State Labour Inspectorate (PIP) would have allowed officials to question the validity of certain civil-law contracts, including B2B and freelance arrangements, and convert ...