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A new Bill for all workers
LORD JOHN HENDY QC presents a Bill that aims to create the single legal category of 'worker' to give all those who work for a wage the same statutory rights as recognised employees
Deliveroo riders from the Independent Workers' Union of Great Britain (IWGB) near Shoreditch, east London, as they go on strike in a dispute for fair pay, safety protections and basic workers' rights, in April 2021
BEN CHACKO speaks with Knesset member OFER CASSIF about rising political violence, the prospects for peace and his continuous ‘silencing by suspension’
The City is leaning on Rachel Reeves to cut welfare spending — when what’s needed is cuts to all the benefits given to the mega rich, corporations and banks to help them not pay or blatantly dodge their fair share of tax, explains BERNIE EVANS
The choice between two Blairites to revamp the tepid centrism of our ruling party doesn’t even come as cold comfort as we wander the city streets suffering from their third decade of austerity and the fifth of wage stagnation, writes MATT KERR
ANN HENDERSON looks at the trailblazers of the Women’s Trade Union League and their successful fight for female factory inspectors — a battle that echoes in today’s workplace campaigns
HENRY FOWLER puts the strike of public-sector workers in New Zealand in the wider context of deteriorating employment conditions throughout the world’s major economies
MAT COWARD looks back at a protest 105 years ago this month, whose reporting by the media bears uncomfortable similarities with demos today
DESPITE promising an Employment Bill on several occasions since it was elected in 2019, the government has now dropped the idea from its legislative programme.
It has recognised that a number of things need to be put right for Britain’s 32 million workers and vowed in its election manifesto that it “will build on existing employment law with measures that protect those in low paid work and the gig economy” by introducing “a raft of measures.” But nothing has been done.
So I have drafted a Bill to deal with a particular problem, one acknowledged by the Tories.
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