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UK trade unions fight for higher pay for migrant workers
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17:03 16/09/2005
UK trade unions announced that they do not support the EU's new rules that allow firms to pay migrant workers poverty wages. The TUC opposed the EU services directive that will enable migrant workers...
Biometric passports no smiling matter
18:38 14/09/2005
Britons applying for a passport from 12 September will be ordered not to smile and pose with a neutral expression so new biometric scanners can accurately read their facial features. Britain's Home...
UK gives same sex couples new legal status
15:22 14/09/2005
The UK's Civil Partnership Act 2004 will come into force on 5 December 2005. Civil partnerships are a new legal relationship which can be registered by two people of the same sex and give the couples...
UK to launch TB screening programme
14:52 14/09/2005
The UK Government has announced that it intends to begin an overseas screening programme for TB for people applying to enter the UK for more than six months. Phase 1 will be introduced by Autumn 2005...
Immigration detainees in UK forced to sleep on tables, chairs
13:33 13/09/2005
Immigration detainees in the UK have been forced to sleep on tables or plastic chairs because of sub-standard provisions, the country's prisons monitor has revealed. Facilities at Gatwick Airport,...
Some UK doctors allegedly involved in visa scam
11:10 12/09/2005
Some doctors in the UK are allegedly taking cash for issuing sponsorship certificates to foreign students. The doctors are selling sponsorship letters for up to £100 each, a Sunday Times...
