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INCREASED automation and deteriorating mental health in the workplace will hit younger workers hardest, Usdaw warns.
A delegation of the retail union’s members is set to address the TUC’s Young Workers Conference at Congress House in central London this weekend.
Speaking ahead of the annual event, Usdaw general secretary Paddy Lillis said that young adults are more likely to be in insecure work and have weaker employment rights, leaving them more vulnerable to job losses caused by automation.
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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
Incoming Usdaw general secretary JOANNE THOMAS talks to Ben Chacko about workers’ rights, Labour and how to arrest the decline of the high street