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New laws ‘would give free rein to extremists on campus’ A student protest outside the Cambridge Union (PA) Labour has accused the Conservatives of enabling extremists to sue universities and students’ unions with upcoming laws the Government says are designed to protect freedom of speech. The Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Bill returns to the Commons on Monday, and Labour is urging Conservative MPs to vote with them against the legislation. Registered universities and colleges in England will be required to promote and defend freedom of speech and academic freedom under the proposed legislation. The Office for Students (OfS), the higher education regulator in England, would have the power to impose fines on institutions if they breached this condition. ....
May 18, 2021, 10:33 pm Andy McDonald, who is calling for the right to flexible working to be enshrined in law (Peter Byrne/PA) Sign up for our daily Politics briefing for political exclusives, analysis and debate. Thank you for signing up to our Politics newsletter. Something went wrong - please try again later. Sign Up The right to flexible and remote working should be enshrined in law, Labour has said, as it was feared a “two-tier world of work” would become further entrenched after the pandemic. Labour claims that analysis of data from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) shows that while chief executives and those living in London are most likely to be able to work from home, young people, keyworkers and those who live in the north of England are losing out. ....
The right to flexible and remote working should be enshrined in law, Labour has said, as it was feared a “two-tier world of work” would become further entrenched after the pandemic. Labour claims that analysis of data from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) shows that while chief executives and those living in London are most likely to be able to work from home, young people, keyworkers and those who live in the north of England are losing out. The party said the Government had promised to protect workers’ rights in the Employment Bill in 2019, but that this had failed to materialise. ....
The right to flexible and remote working should be enshrined in law, Labour has said, as it was feared a “two-tier world of work” would become further entrenched after the pandemic. Labour claims that analysis of data from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) shows that while chief executives and those living in London are most likely to be able to work from home, young people, keyworkers and those who live in the north of England are losing out. The party said the Government had promised to protect workers’ rights in the Employment Bill in 2019, but that this had failed to materialise. ....
The right to flexible and remote working should be enshrined in law, Labour has said, as it was feared a “two-tier world of work” would become further entrenched after the pandemic. Labour claims that analysis of data from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) shows that while chief executives and those living in London are most likely to be able to work from home, young people, keyworkers and those who live in the north of England are losing out. The party said the Government had promised to protect workers’ rights in the Employment Bill in 2019, but that this had failed to materialise. ....