Tipping in the Service Industry - Progress!

Today, on the 10th Anniversary of minimum wage legislation in the UK, the government have announced their intention to reform the rules on the use of tips to ‘top-up’ wages to minimum wage level.
We would like to congratulate the swift work of those who have campaigned on this issue, and have achieved a meaningful [More…]

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Waiter walking by independentman June 28 2002 Spotlight on Working Conditions: Tipping in the Service Industry

 
A campaign launched by The Independent last week aims to highlight the treatment of waiters and waitresses working in some of the biggest name high-street restaurant chains. In an article entitled “Revealed: how the restaurant chains pocket your tips” The Independent exposed a series of unfair practices in the restaurant industry. The article showed [More…]

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homeworking.jpg Homeworking in the Indian garment industry: what are the issues and how can homeworkers’ lives be improved

Following the Primark news stories and Panorama documentary a couple of weeks ago about the undeclared outsourcing and child labour in the Indian supply chains of Primark, we thought we would write a blog about homeworking and the challenges it represents, particularly in the Indian garment industry.
As we noted before homeworking is endemic in the [More…]

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Is ‘Doing Business’ good for workers? World Bank rethinks its strategy

The World Bank’s ‘Doing Business‘ (DB) report is one of the Bank’s flagship initiatives to promote business-led economic growth. The annual report ranks countries on a variety of indices in order to compile a list of the countries with the most pro-business enabling environment. In the 2008 report, Singapore tops the index, whilst the [More…]

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