This Regulation Impact Statement provides an analysis of the impact of a prohibition on the use of engineered stone under current Work Health and Safety laws in response to the epidemic of occupational lung disease including accelerated silicosis in the engineered stone industry.

While the United States and European Union look to scale up investment into a green transition, the United Kingdom is pulling in the opposite direction. The different policy and political contexts between each government’s approach mean that UK cannot simply copy its counterparts. However, there are key lessons and policies that the authors of this...

European shipping companies are knowingly sending their end-of-life ships for scrap in dangerous and polluting yards in Bangladesh. This report reveals a network used by shipowners to circumvent international regulations prohibiting the export of ships to facilities like those in Bangladesh that do not have adequate environmental or labor protections.

Worker surveillance is as old as work itself, but new technology is making it easier and cheaper than ever. In this report, the authors make policy recommendations that would help redress the balance of power between workers and employers.

This paper quantifies the dramatic risks faced by workers whose employers unilaterally terminate enterprise agreements during the course of renegotiations.