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Deliveroo riders hold a protest over pay outside the company HQ in Torrington Place, London in 2016
THREE in five workers are unaware of the rights of people on zero-hours contracts, new research suggests.
Conciliation service Acas said its survey of 1,000 adults found that only one in 10 were fully aware of the rights of workers employed on such terms.
According to Acas, a zero-hours contract is usually one in which an employer does not have to give any minimum working hours and a worker does not have to take any work offered.
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
The Bill addresses some exploitation but leaves trade unions heavily regulated, most workers without collective bargaining coverage, and fails to tackle the balance of power that enables constant mutation of bad practice, write KEITH EWING and LORD JOHN HENDY KC
It is only trade union power at work that will materially improve the lot of working people as a class but without sector-wide collective bargaining and a right to take sympathetic strike action, we are hamstrung in the fight to tilt back the balance of power, argues ADRIAN WEIR