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Speakers at the fringe meeting
LABOUR’S Employment Rights Bill must put power into the hands of workers, not employers’ human resources departments, trade unionists warned today.
A fringe meeting at the TUC Women’s Conference highlighted concerns about the forthcoming legislation, which will reach report stage in Commons next week.
BFAWU general secretary Sarah Woolley said the Bill could bring important improvements in key areas for female workers, but with her union’s members affected most by insecure work, she said that a full ban on zero-hour contracts was needed.
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
