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BEING terminally ill should be recognised as a protected characteristic in the workplace, the RMT argued yesterday.
Delegates said employers should help workers to swerve any “avoidable stress and worry” when they are ill.
The motion called on employers to ensure that terminally ill workers do not have to face being made unemployed while they are dying, and that management should liaise with terminally ill workers to make them feel as comfortable as possible in the workplace.
The new Employment Rights Act is a step forward, but restoring collective bargaining and union power remains essential to tackling insecurity, outsourcing and low pay, says PAUL WHITEHOUSE
Labour must not allow unelected members of the upper house to erode a single provision of the Employment Rights Bill, argues ANDY MCDONALD MP
In the current climate, it is vital to bust the myths and put forward the case for a humane and decent social security system that supports people, argues FRAN HEATHCOTE
