Posted on November 22nd, 2007 by Bob Blyth
The Vulnerable Workers Project, in conjunction with ACAS, the Cleaning and Support Services Association (CSSA) and the Department of Business and Regulatory Reform (BERR), has organised a lunchtime event that will give employers the opportunity to shape the content of training on employment relations for supervisors. The event will be held on Monday, 3rd December, […]
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Posted on November 16th, 2007 by Bob Blyth
The Vulnerable Workers Project is offering an opportunity to train as support volunteers to assist in delivering training to groups of workers and prospective workers. The offer is open to volunteers and clients with community organisations, union members and the general public in Tower Hamlets and surrounding London boroughs. We are particularly interested in developing support volunteers who […]
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Posted on November 16th, 2007 by Bob Blyth
Andy Slaughter, MP for Ealing, Acton & Shepherds Bush gave his strong support for the joint VWP/GMB employment rights awareness afternoon for Polish workers. Andy said:
‘this is a very good initiative. The Government has introduced a number of pieces of employment legislation to provide social justice in the workplace. A decent society is one that […]
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Posted on November 16th, 2007 by Bob Blyth
A meeting jointly organised by the VWP and the trade union, GMB, to raise awareness in the Polish community of their employment rights heard that issues that they were commonly facing included:
- workers not being paid for all the hours that they worked;
- employers making unauthorised deductions from wages including saying that workers had to pay insurance and retention money;
- […]
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Posted on November 16th, 2007 by Bob Blyth
The Vulnerable Workers Project held a launch on 6th November to mark the establishment of its outreach services. The project has secured a licensing arrangement with Tower Hamlets Law Centre and will use this as a base for running employment rights advice and awareness raising sessions in the Law Centre and surrounding areas. Around 35 people attended to […]
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Posted on September 17th, 2007 by Bob Blyth
The VWP Trade Union group meets on Tuesday, 18th September, 2.00pm at Congress House. Among the issues for discussion are delivering employment rights training to raise workers’ awareness of support available, developing referals and joint action with stautory agencies and running workshops on specific issues of vulnerability such as trade union discrimination.
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Posted on August 5th, 2007 by Bob Blyth
The first employment rights sub-partner group will be held on Thursday, 6th September at 2.00pm in Congress House. The meeting will discuss the activities being undertaken and the challenges faced by advice agencies, community organisations and union branches in improving the position of vulnerable workers and establish a series of measures co-ordinated that the VWP will co-ordinate to […]
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Posted on July 13th, 2007 by admin
This site is currently under construction, so this is the first news update. We hope to have it ready soon, and bring you more news about the project, which is underway already.
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