LABOUR is pledging to eradicate in-work poverty, cut the working week and introduce the biggest extension of workers’ rights in history.
The party’s manifesto sets out a series of employment measures it says will transform workers’ pay, conditions and rights.
Among them are the “rapid” introduction of a real living wage of at least £10 an hour for over-16s and repeal of anti-trade union legislation.
Labour must not allow unelected members of the upper house to erode a single provision of the Employment Rights Bill, argues ANDY MCDONALD MP
The Bill addresses some exploitation but leaves trade unions heavily regulated, most workers without collective bargaining coverage, and fails to tackle the balance of power that enables constant mutation of bad practice, write KEITH EWING and LORD JOHN HENDY KC
