📢 Calling all Londoners - have you registered to vote?
Did you know you CAN vote in the May local elections if:
🗳️ You're a migrant from a commonwealth country
🗳️ You're an EU citizen with 'retained rights'
🗳️ You're a UK citizen
👀More info⬇️
www.registertovote.london
#LDW2026 @shoutoutuk.bsky.social
NEW: Our analysis finds the Home Office has exponentially increased enforcement against rule-breaking employers.
We welcome holding exploitative employers to account, but migrant workers must not be punished for their employers' crimes.
www.workrightscentre.org/publications...
In case you missed it: Home Office announces a further extension to the Ukraine Permission Extension Scheme | Jasmine Quiller-Doust
We're concerned to see increasing numbers of migrant women losing sponsorship or being told they cannot get pregnant while sponsored.
This is the experience of Zinhle, who sought our legal advice after the birth of her son, born 3 weeks early due to stress.
www.workrightscentre.org/publications...
'Ministers must look at what workers and public services really need, and go beyond the narrow focus on migrant numbers to design an immigration system that works for the people who actually use it.' - Our CEO Dr Dora-Olivia Vicol
www.theguardian.com/society/2026...
Our analysis of official Home Office immigration stats is on the front page of today's Guardian.
It's good to see this huge drop in skilled visas being taken seriously - 'No hospital is likely to welcome a 93% drop in overseas nurses' !
www.workrightscentre.org/publications...
Our research in @theguardian.com/ Latest Home Office stats show radical drop in nurses, therapists, scientists, educational professionals and skilled tradespeople coming to work in the UK. There are real costs to the government's narrow focus on reducing numbers. Time to change focus.
The government has released further details on the second extension to the Ukraine Permission Extension Scheme, adding a 24-month extension on top of the initial 18-month extension.
Find out more in our recently updated guide for Ukrainians in the UK.
www.workrightscentre.org/immigration-...
🚨NEW Home Office figures show the numbers of Skilled Worker visas granted have hit lowest levels since the UK left the EU, driven by a loss of international healthcare, education, science and trade professionals.
www.workrightscentre.org/publications...
If you're horrified by Reform's headline-grabbing racism (and you should be), you should also be horrified by our current Government's attacks on Indefinite Leave To Remain.
Our head of campaigns @nbphillips1872.bsky.social in The Guardian:
buff.ly/JIRAiD7
Today, Reform put forward a host of policies that would damage UK families & communities.
While their plan for a UK version of ICE is the most shocking, the plan to end ILR could be catastrophic. Thank you @hollybancroft.bsky.social for comprehensive coverage
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
and stoke anger. They are cruel, economically self-defeating, and offer no solutions to the real problems facing people in Britain: poverty and exploitative work.” 4/4
- Our CEO Dr Dora-Olivia Vicol
hold ILR are our partners, neighbours, friends, teachers, NHS workers, and include high tax contributors. There is absolutely no reason to terminate their status other than for Reform’s own self-serving goals of division and chaos.
“These are proposals designed purely to grab headlines... 3/X
communities being ripped apart, money being wasted, and the government turning against its own people.
“Cancelling the immigration status of people who have settled and built their entire lives here would not only be callous, but actively hurt our economy and public services.
"People who... 2/X
Our response to Reform's immigration plans in full:
"We have watched in horror as ICE attacked migrant communities and citizens in the US – yet this is what Reform wants to base their immigration policies on?
"This is a sadistic vision of UK families and... 1/X
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
A whole host of leading experts from academia, industry, the legal sector and civil society have told the Commons and the Lords in plain terms: these proposals risk causing serious damage to our economy and society.
Why is the government refusing to listen?
www.workrightscentre.org/publications...
70 parliamentarians have written to the Home Office saying the settlement proposals are unfair & need a significant rethink
Alongside more than 100 MPs, peers and union leaders, we have written to the Home Secretary demanding she immediately halt her 'earned settlement' reforms.
These proposals will only inflict harm on families, communities, public services, and the economy. They must not pass.
⚠️ The day has come!
The Home Office consultation deadline is at midnight tonight.
If you haven't responded, set aside half an hour to do so.
My thread provide tips and resources to help you respond effectively, including the guide linked here. Keep it open while you go along.
Today is the LAST DAY to complete the government's consultation on 'earned' settlement.
If you think these plans are wrong - make your voice count now.
www.workrightscentre.org/our-campaign...
Imagine being presented with these accounts of stark unfairness and insecurity caused by the earned settlement plans and your response being ‘It is a privilege not a right to settle in the UK and it must be earned’ - the Home Secretary needs to go www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
We’re embarking on something new 👀 so we're looking for the right person to lead it.
We’re hiring Training Lead (Employment Law) with legal expertise, a genuine love for teaching and a creative spark to develop compelling and accessible legal workshops.
www.workrightscentre.org/publications...
There's just 3 days left before the government's 'earned' settlement consultation closes - take 15 minutes to make your voice count ✊
www.workrightscentre.org/our-campaign...
The Home Secretary's response to moving the goal post is essentially 'rules change' and the risks to children are ultimately 'the parent's responsibility and they should plan their time in the UK better'.
This is from the party webpage.
Child poverty prevention is clearly not for everyone.
Blue box containing the words "Submitting a response to the Government's earned settlement public consultation" with the logo "Praxis, for migrants and refugees"
🚨 Just THREE days left to tell the Government what you think of making refugees wait 20 years for safety 🚨
We cannot let these appalling plans go unchallenged.
Follow this guide from Praxis to make sure your voice is heard.
www.praxis.org.uk/consultation
More than 1 in 10 employers stripped of their licence had it reinstated to continue hiring - and exploiting - migrants. Shameful. Is the Home Office operating with its eyes closed?
These employers must be fined, and that money must be used to compensate victims.
www.thetimes.com/uk/crime/art...
A massive thank you to @neilduncanjordan.bsky.social and @unison.org.uk for collaborating with us to host an event for MPs to hear directly from migrant workers set to be affected by the settlement proposals.
As @stevewitherdenmp.bsky.social said: MPs are waking up to the magnitude of these plans!
Watch the full debate from Monday 2 February 2026 www.parliamentlive.tv/Event/Index/...
'Retrospectivity is un-British' - Labour MP @tonyvaughanmp.bsky.social told a packed Westminster Hall debate that plans to double migrants' wait for settlement must be abandoned.
'Let us be a country that always honours its debts, not just its financial ones, but its moral ones too'👏Thank you Tony
