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British Gas workers outside the Scottish Gas call centre in Edinburgh on the seventh day of a seven day strike over new contracts
FIRE-and-rehire tactics used by shameless bosses to drive down wages and conditions under cover of the Covid-19 pandemic must be banned, the TUC says.
Nearly 10 per cent of workers have been told to reapply for their jobs on worse terms and conditions or face the sack, and a quarter have already seen their pay or hours downgraded since the first lockdown, a shocking TUC poll published today reveals.
For young, black and minority-ethnic workers the picture is even worse, with 18 per cent of 18- to 24-year-olds and 15 per cent of black workers reporting that their bosses had tried to rehire them on worse terms.
Labour’s watered-down legislation won’t protect us from unfair dismissal or ban some zero-hours contracts until 2027 — leaving millions of young people vulnerable to the populist right’s appeal, warns TUC young workers chair FRASER MCGUIRE
Labour must not allow unelected members of the upper house to erode a single provision of the Employment Rights Bill, argues ANDY MCDONALD MP
It is only trade union power at work that will materially improve the lot of working people as a class but without sector-wide collective bargaining and a right to take sympathetic strike action, we are hamstrung in the fight to tilt back the balance of power, argues ADRIAN WEIR
