Latest editorial
The government may call on companies to confess how many of their workers are being paid less than the living wage, it was announced yesterday.
Business Secretary Vince Cable told MPs the idea, originally put forward by Labour, was an interesting suggestion for "nudging companies in the right direction."
But Mr Cable attempted to talk down union proposals for mandatory annual reports, saying he was against "coercive measures" which he claimed would risk increasing unemployment.
Martin Taylor, the hedge-fund multimillionaire who has poured millions into pushing Labour rightwards, helped finance Lucy Powell’s supposedly dissenting campaign — suggesting her victory was not the ‘soft-left’ rebellion some have claimed, says SOLOMON HUGHES
Labour must not allow unelected members of the upper house to erode a single provision of the Employment Rights Bill, argues ANDY MCDONALD MP
