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BOSSES are using a “loopy loo loophole” to deny toilet breaks to retail workers, Usdaw conference heard yesterday.
The conference overwhelmingly passed a motion branding it “ridiculous” that employers must provide decent lavs but “there is no clear right” for workers to be able to use them.
Proposer Michelle Griffiths, from northwest England, said: “Many employers believe loo breaks should take place in workers’ own time.
Labour must not allow unelected members of the upper house to erode a single provision of the Employment Rights Bill, argues ANDY MCDONALD MP
On the eve of the 157th Trades Union Congress, MICK WHELAN, general secretary of Aslef, the train drivers’ union, celebrates victory in his campaign to get dignity for drivers at work
Incoming Usdaw general secretary JOANNE THOMAS talks to Ben Chacko about workers’ rights, Labour and how to arrest the decline of the high street
