WORKERS need more and better rights, the trade union movement says today after the government abandoned its planned attack on working hours and holiday pay.

Unions breathed a collective sigh of relief yesterday when Business Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng signalled that a “review” of legislation on working hours and holiday pay would be shelved following massive labour movement pressure.

But the urgent need to force the government to honour its so far empty pledge to “level up” was put into stark relief when the TUC revealed that a quarter of all workers in Britain – some 7.5 million people – have no protection against unfair dismissal.