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BLACK workers demanded today that ethnic pay gap reporting be made mandatory and that the TUC sign up to the commitments of the Race at Work Charter.
Daniel Ay Leb from the Community union highlighted a TUC survey showing that one in six black workers are likely to be trapped in insecure work as evidence that greater protection is needed.
Mr Leb welcomed the government’s commitment to make ethnicity pay gap reporting mandatory for employers with more than 250 staff, but he said that much more needed to be done to tackle inequality and discrimination in the workplace.
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
