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Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar, June 18, 2024
SCOTTISH Labour leader Anas Sarwar has argued his party will tackle the “scourge” of low pay as young workers demand “real action” on age wage discrimination.
Labour’s new Employment Bill “will look to” ban exploitative zero-hour contracts, end fire and rehire, strengthen sick pay, and alleviate in-work poverty, which has ballooned by a staggering 48 per cent under the Tories from 290,000 in 2009-12, to 430,000 in 2020-23.
Mr Sarwar claimed progress had already been made towards meeting the pledge to scrap age discrimination against 18-20 year-olds after Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner and Employment Secretary Jonanthan Reynolds instructed the low pay commission to begin harmonising the rates.
Working-class women lead the fight for fair work and equitable pay and against sexual harassment, the rise of the far right and years of failed austerity policies, writes ROZ FOYER
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