Web links for 3rd August 2009

03 Aug 2009, by ToUChstone blog in Web links

• TUC agency work poll
  A YouGov survey of agency workers for the TUC has found that one in three (33%) respondents said that directly employed staff were paid more than temps for doing the same work, and nearly half (46%) said they received less holiday entitlement. Three in four (75%) respondents to the poll said temps were entitled to less redundancy pay than directly employed staff, and more than two in three (70%) said that agency workers were entitled to less maternity pay than directly employed colleagues.
• FT.com / UK / Politics & policy – May warns of welfare-to-work rethink
  The FT reports on Theresa May’s refusal to guarantee that benefits and pensions would still increase with inflation under a Tory Government.
• Women and Work Commission – three years on
  The Women and Work Commission review progress on the gender pay gap three years after their first report