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A New Deal for Workers: the Institute of Employment Rights on Covid and our rights
Prof K D Ewing and Lord John Hendy QC say the pandemic has strengthened the case for an overhaul of workplace rights
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Before Covid, a team of experts set out, for the Institute of Employment Rights (IER), a transformative programme for future work relations in Britain. The aim? To improve the poor working conditions prevalent in this country pre-Covid, since exposed and made worse by the pandemic.
Pre-Covid conditions
- Average wages had not increased in real terms for 12 years;
- 5.1 million people earned less than the real living wage (£9.30 per hour);
- 8.3 million people in working households lived in poverty;
- 1 million workers were on zero-hours contracts;
- 3.6 million workers were in insecure work;
- 75 per cent of workers were on terms and conditions determined unilaterally by employers.
Covid impact
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