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TRADE unions demanded more powers to report minimum wage underpayment today after a new report said offending bosses should be punished harshly.
According to the report, published by the Resolution Foundation, the rate of underpayment for workers earning the legal minimum and aged over 25 has risen from one in five in 2016 to one in four last year.
However, there is only a one in eight chance of firms that break the law being caught.
It is only trade union power at work that will materially improve the lot of working people as a class but without sector-wide collective bargaining and a right to take sympathetic strike action, we are hamstrung in the fight to tilt back the balance of power, argues ADRIAN WEIR
While claiming to target fraud, Labour’s snooping Bill strips benefit recipients of privacy rights and presumption of innocence, writes CLAUDIA WEBBE, warning that algorithms with up to 25 per cent error rates could wrongfully investigate and harass millions of vulnerable people
