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TWO MAINTENANCE workers at the “squalid” Liverpool Prison who were sacked for raising safety concerns were unfairly dismissed, an employment tribunal has ruled.
John Bromilow and Harry Wildman, who had each worked at the jail for more than two decades, were fired by outsourcing company Amey after telling the prison governor about plans to get staff to carry out maintenance jobs alone instead of in pairs.
Painter-decorator Mr Bromilow, 66, told the BBC that the proposed changes were a safety risk as tools could be taken by prisoners.
The unions are unhappy with the Employment Rights Act 2025 and with good reason. KEITH EWING and Lord JOHN HENDY KC take a close look at why the Bill promised more than it delivered
Labour’s long-promised Act has scraped through the Lords. While the law marks a step forward, its lack of collective rights leaves workers short-changed — and sets the stage for a renewed campaign for an Employment Rights Bill #2, argues TONY BURKE
Employment lawyer ALICE BOWMAN warns ‘day one rights’ include an undefined ‘initial period’ and the zero-hours contract fixes create baffling fixed-term loopholes. If the Bill doesn’t work properly and deliver, Labour is doomed
Our members face serious violence, crumbling workplaces and exposure to dangerous drugs — it is outrageous we still cannot legally use our industrial muscle to fight back and defend ourselves, writes STEVE GILLAN