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THE coalition government is leaving behind a racially “penalising” job market, new figures showed yesterday, with two in five black and Asian workers now in poorly paid jobs.
According to a new report by the TUC, the number of black people in low paying jobs increased by almost 13 per cent between 2011 and 2014.
Last year alone, over 15 per cent of the black and Asian workforce was underemployed — nearly 500,000 people.
Labour’s watered-down legislation won’t protect us from unfair dismissal or ban some zero-hours contracts until 2027 — leaving millions of young people vulnerable to the populist right’s appeal, warns TUC young workers chair FRASER MCGUIRE
Our members face daily abuse, being spat at, sometimes even deadly assaults, and employers fail to take the issue seriously despite the increasing danger, writes RMT general secretary EDDIE DEMPSEY