LABOUR’S historic workers’ rights revolution has “more holes than Swiss cheese” allowing bosses to continue exploiting workers, unions warned yesterday as the Employment Rights Bill landed in Parliament.

Unite general secretary Sharon Graham said the much-anticipated 149-page Bill stops short of making work pay and “ties itself up in knots trying to avoid what was promised.”

Caveats means it fails to ban fire and rehire and zero-hours contracts, and watered-down rules on giving workers access to unions will hinder their ability to fight for better pay and conditions through collective bargaining.