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LABOUR leader Jeremy Corbyn announced plans this weekend for a workers’ rights commission in a bid to end the “scourge of in-work poverty.”
Mr Corbyn revealed at Unite’s first Scottish policy conference that former miner and shadow minister for trade unions Ian Lavery will chair the body aimed at curbing the “unaccountable power” of bosses and putting “power in the hands of the worker.”
The Star understands that TUC general secretary Frances O’Grady will also be among the 10-strong advisory panel of experts.
The new Employment Rights Act is a step forward, but restoring collective bargaining and union power remains essential to tackling insecurity, outsourcing and low pay, says PAUL WHITEHOUSE
Employment lawyer ALICE BOWMAN warns ‘day one rights’ include an undefined ‘initial period’ and the zero-hours contract fixes create baffling fixed-term loopholes. If the Bill doesn’t work properly and deliver, Labour is doomed
Our members face serious violence, crumbling workplaces and exposure to dangerous drugs — it is outrageous we still cannot legally use our industrial muscle to fight back and defend ourselves, writes STEVE GILLAN
Labour must not allow unelected members of the upper house to erode a single provision of the Employment Rights Bill, argues ANDY MCDONALD MP