Employment lawyer ALICE BOWMAN warns ‘day one rights’ include an undefined ‘initial period’ and the zero-hours contract fixes create baffling fixed-term loopholes. If the Bill doesn’t work properly and deliver, Labour is doomed
What happens next at the Petroineos oil refinery is of crucial national importance
One of the biggest tests for politicians and parties ahead of approaching elections is their commitment to support the 500 highly skilled jobs at Grangemouth, warns DEREK THOMSON

WE celebrated May Day earlier this week at an incredibly important point in Scotland’s recent history.
There is a new first minister on the way, probably new Scottish Parliament elections along with a UK general election on the horizon.
Never has the voice of working people and trade unions been more necessary to the political and industrial debate in Scotland.
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DEREK THOMSON salutes Unite’s string of inflation-busting victories from bakeries to airports, but slams Labour and the SNP’s inaction over the Grangemouth refinery closure and badly fumbling the Just Transition process