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Frances O'Grady, General Secretary of the TUC
THE TUC has called for the abolition of zero-hour contracts after official figures showed that nearly one million people are trapped in the “gig” economy.
The Office for National Statistics (ONS) revealed today that 978,000 workers are on the precarious contracts as they try to make ends meet at a time of massive uncertainty caused by the Covid-19 pandemic.
TUC general secretary Frances O’Grady said: “Everyone deserves to be treated with dignity and respect at work.
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
Labour must not allow unelected members of the upper house to erode a single provision of the Employment Rights Bill, argues ANDY MCDONALD MP
