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Articles by Maia Kirby
Illness related job loss: Effective action at last?
A government commissioned review could herald important and positive changes to the way in which workers with health-related work limitations are supported by employers. As a result they could help reduce the unacceptable scale of job loss experienced by ill and disabled workers. At the same time, these outcomes are far from assured and are unlikely to occur without the active lobbying on the part of the union movement.
Using Violation Tracker UK to fight for workplace justice
In recent years, trade unions have turned more to corporate accountability research to address the declining power of workers in relation to the companies that employ them. As these companies have grown, protections for workers have been eroded. New forms of precarious employment have distanced workers from the unions that could protect them. There are now whole sectors that have limited collective bargaining power.
Care Quality Commission Under Fire: What Can Violation Tracker UK Records on Forced Closures Tell Us?
Part one of a series looking at CQC enforcement Source: Katarzyna Bialasiewicz/Getty Images In July, an interim report commissioned by the new health secretary found significant failings at the Care Quality Commission (CQC), England’s health and social care regulator. This report found poor operational performance, with the number of inspections conducted between 2023 and 2024 more than halving from 2019 and 2020.
Introducing Our New Violation Tracker UK Newsletter
Dear Friends, We launched Violation Tracker UK nearly three years ago with the goal of providing critical and timely information about corporate regulatory crimes. Today, that database has grown to more than 100,000 cases resolved since 2010 across 80 regulatory agencies. We cover issues such as financial misconduct, workplace abuses, environmental offences and anti-competitive practices.
Protecting All We Care About: Fixing the UK’s Regulatory Crisis
Ahead of the General Election, Good Jobs First has teamed up with UncheckedUK to host an event on the current state of enforcement in the UK, and what can be done to improve it. The recent scandals of sewage dumping, contaminated drinking water, and school meal failures show the cost to the public when sufficient protections are not in place.
A Perilous Gap: Government Regulatory Enforcement in the United Kingdom vs the United States
Executive Summary Using our two unique databases on corporate misconduct, Violation Tracker and Violation Tracker UK, we find that total penalties issued by US regulators since 2010 are substantially higher than those issued by their UK counterparts. These differences are especially salient: In the UK, there are far fewer cases against large companies, particularly when it comes to price-fixing.
Keeping Track of Regulatory Breaches Could Help Customers Get Their Money Back
A landmark case is set to conclude this month. A group claim against telecommunications giant BT is the first of its kind to proceed to trial at the Competition Appeal Tribunal. The claim, if successful, could see 3.7 million BT customers recover some of the money they were overcharged for landline-only services. Group claims are becoming more and more common in the UK. Legislation brought in 2015 allowed class actions to be brought in cases involving a competition breach.
Is US Healthcare Misconduct Coming to the UK?
We teamed up with Corporate Watch UK to take a closer look at some of the companies advising the Prime Minister on the National Health Service backlog; what is the scale of their involvement in the NHS and what run ins have they had with regulators? With recent news that American healthcare giant Centene Corp. is exiting the UK, there may be a sigh of relief from activists.
Private Sector Misconduct in the National Health Service (NHS)
We teamed up with Corporate Watch UK to take a closer look at some of the companies advising the Prime Minister on the National Health Service backlog; what is the scale of their involvement in the NHS and what run ins have they had with regulators?
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