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WORKERS in Britain are being driven to exhaustion through demands for harder, faster and more intense work, higher output and unreachable targets, a damning new report reveals.
Bosses are even using new technology to increase levels of exploitation, despite its effects on workers’ health and well-being.
The TUC report following a new poll states that 55 per cent of workers polled feel that work is getting more intense and demanding, 61 per cent say they feel exhausted at the end of most working days, and 40 per cent say they have to do more work in the same amount of time — and the problems are getting worse.
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
PAUL W FLEMING is unequivocal that Labour’s unpreparedness and resulting ambiguity on copyright in the creative industries has to be reined in with policies that will reverse the growing abuse by Big Tech AI
NICOLA SARAH HAWKINS explains how an under-regulated introduction of AI into education is already exacerbating inequalities