Claims extracted
22
sentences that state something as happening or true
Uncertain
27%
6 of 22 hedged
("reportedly", "may", "according to")
Leaning
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no quote in the article backed the model's score
Publisher signals
68/100
Daily Mail's corrections and
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Small-boat migrants working in Britain illegally can sue their bosses for harassment under Labour's strengthened workers' rights laws, new guidance warns.
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guidance → work → laws
The human rights watchdog has published fresh direction on the 'legal obligations' for bosses to tackle harassment after Angela Rayner's Employment Rights Act came into force on Friday.
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Act → publish → Friday
The guidance from the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) includes the case of a 'migrant worker without a valid work permit' to explain what could now constitute harassment.
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what → include → harassment
Businesses are required to take 'all reasonable steps', rather than simply 'reasonable steps', to prevent sexual and other harassment of their employees.
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Businesses → require → employees
The EHRC guidance states that even if somebody is working illegally, if their boss did not take 'all reasonable steps' then a 'tribunal can now hear the worker's claim'.
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tribunal → state → claim
'The fact that a contract of employment is illegal will not normally prevent a worker pursuing their harassment claim' under workers' rights laws.
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worker → prevent → laws
Shadow Home Secretary Chris Philp said: 'This is farcical.
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This → say → ?
Labour should be stopping the boats and securing our borders.
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Labour → stop → borders
Instead, they are handing out even more rights to illegal immigrants.
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they → hand → immigrants
The EHRC gives the example of a migrant working illegally.
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EHRC → give → migrant
It says: 'A migrant worker without a valid work permit is harassed by her colleague while working for a company.
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worker → say → company
Small-boat migrants working in Britain illegally can sue their bosses for harassment under Labour's strengthened workers' rights laws
A man wearing an England football top clambers to board a taxi boat at Gravelines in northern France, before attempting to cross the English Channel
The human rights watchdog has published fresh direction on the 'legal obligations' for bosses to tackle harassment after Angela Rayner's Employment Rights Act came into force on Friday
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Act → work → Friday
The contract of employment is illegal because the worker does not have a work permit.
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worker → have → permit
However, the tribunal can hear the worker's claim for harassment.
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tribunal → hear → harassment
While her employment with the company may have created an opportunity for the colleague to harass the worker, the harassment was not dependent on her employment.
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harassment → create → employment
'She could have been subjected to the harassment even if she had not been in employment with the company.'
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she → subject → company
Under Labour's new laws, companies can be liable if employees are harassed by 'third parties', including customers, self-employed contractors or freelancers, if they failed to take all reasonable steps to prevent it.
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they → harass → it
Businesses face being taken to tribunals and paying uncapped compensation if they are found not to have taken all reasonable steps to stop any harassment related to 'protected characteristics' including age, disability, race, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation and gender reassignment.
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they → face → age
The move comes after a Malaysian migrant with no legal right to work in the UK was awarded more than £5,000 after winning an employment tribunal case for discrimination in September.
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migrant → come → September
Hotel manager Erin Ong did not have a permit to work at the Fisherbeck Hotel in Ambleside, Cumbria, but was still awarded the payout for compensation for race, sex and disability discrimination after an employment judge ruled in her favour.
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judge → have → favour
It was found that she was discriminated against by being made to work in conditions that aggravated her asthma, being required to show her passport, and because she was sacked for refusing to move accommodation.
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she → find → accommodation
A government spokesman said: 'The changes introduced on Friday mean employers must take stronger action to make sure everyone can feel safe at work.'
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everyone → say → work
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