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SHOP workers’ union Usdaw called for new legislation yesterday guaranteeing minimum hours for staff when a trade union demands such a contract to tackle exploitative zero-hours contracts.
Delegates were responding to the recent scandal which found 1.4 million workers are employed on a zero-hours contract.
Usdaw deputy general secretary Paddy Lillis criticised employers for defending the practice as “necessary for the business.”
MARTYN GRAY asks TUC congress to endorse measures that would help stop the present exploitation of seafarers
Labour must not allow unelected members of the upper house to erode a single provision of the Employment Rights Bill, argues ANDY MCDONALD MP
Incoming Usdaw general secretary JOANNE THOMAS talks to Ben Chacko about workers’ rights, Labour and how to arrest the decline of the high street
