MINISTERS must outlaw dodgy hiring practices and replace the furlough scheme with something similar to avoid the scar of mass unemployment being left by the coronavirus pandemic, Sir Keir Starmer is expected to say today. 

In a speech to TUC Congress, the Labour leader will call on the government to clamp down on the practice of “fire and rehire.”

Bosses can impose changes to pay and conditions by sacking and re-employing workers on new contracts that leave them worse off. Mr Starmer will condemn the practice as “not just wrong, but against British values.”