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ALMOST two million workers in Britain are suffering insecurity in their jobs, the TUC has warned.
At least 1.8m workers have few rights of work, no entitlement to redundancy pay, no protection from unfair dismissal and no maternity rights. Many more are denied rights because their bosses wrongly classify them as self-employed.
The TUC publishes its findings today before the government’s response to the Taylor review of modern employment practices due this week.
Employment lawyer ALICE BOWMAN warns ‘day one rights’ include an undefined ‘initial period’ and the zero-hours contract fixes create baffling fixed-term loopholes. If the Bill doesn’t work properly and deliver, Labour is doomed
Labour must not allow unelected members of the upper house to erode a single provision of the Employment Rights Bill, argues ANDY MCDONALD MP
