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Working Time Regulations: Why You Must Be Paid for Preparation Time

admin Legislation, Pay

For millions of UK workers, the day doesn’t start when they swipe a badge — it starts the moment they pull on a uniform, boot up a work system, or load a company van. If your employer requires you to perform tasks before your official shift, you need to know your rights under the working time regulations.


A recent government crackdown has made headlines by fining major retailers for failing to pay staff for this exact type of time. High Street giant Holland & Barrett was ordered to repay more than £153,000 to over 2,500 workers, proving that preparation time is legally considered work.

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Your Right to Request Flexible Working in the UK: How to Make a Successful Application

admin Legislation, Work Environment

For decades, the structure of the average workday has remained rigid: the 9-to-5, five-days-a-week grind. But our lives aren't rigid. We are parents juggling the school run, carers supporting loved ones, disabled workers managing energy levels, and simply humans who want a better work life balance.


Whether you are seeking compressed hours, a permanent hybrid working arrangement, or simply part time hours, the law is on your side. In the UK, the right to request flexible working is now a day one right for all employees. You no longer need 26 weeks of service to ask.

However, there is a significant gap between having a right to request flexible working and getting a "yes."

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The Great Wage Theft of 2025: UK Workers Forced to Hand Over £28.5 Billion in Free Labour

admin Pay

A staggering new analysis from the Trade Union Congress (TUC) has exposed the scale of exploitation silently plaguing the UK’s workplaces: last year, workers were effectively forced to hand over £28.5 billion of their own wages back to their employers.


While corporations enjoyed the fruits of this free labour, one in eight UK employees—a staggering 3.5 million people—were pressured into working extra hours for absolutely nothing in return. According to the TUC’s findings, the average worker sacrificed £8,100 of their hard-earned pay in 2025 by clocking up an average of nearly seven unpaid hours every single week. In total, the workforce contributed a mind-boggling 1.2 billion hours of labour for which they were not compensated.

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Take Control with a Subject Access Request: Your Boss Knows Everything About You. Isn’t It Time You Knew Everything About Them?

admin Data Protection

Here at MultiUnion, we spend every day fighting for fairness and power for workers. We know that in the modern workplace, the power dynamic is incredibly one-sided. Your employer collects vast amounts of data about you—not just your official HR file, but your emails, your messages on Teams or Slack, performance notes, even the metadata of your daily work.

Subject Access Request with CorpSpy

They build a digital profile, but what do you really know about what’s being held, how it’s being used, or what decisions are being made based on it?

We believe it’s time to flip the script. That’s why we built CorpSpy — a free tool designed to help you submit a powerful subject access request in just a few clicks. It’s not about being paranoid; it’s about being informed. It’s about transparency, accountability, and asserting your fundamental rights.

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