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...
Canadian woman argues for changes to sponsorship rules
11:46 15/09/2005
Sally Santiago could never have imagined that her arranged marriage to a Filipino husband would leave her bruised and beaten. She says that Citizenship and Immigration Canada forced her to continue...
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,...
BBC News releases online UK immigration map
9:38 09/09/2005
BBC News website readers can see an immigration map of Britain based on the most comprehensive set of figures ever assembled about people born outside the British Isles, where they come from, where...
