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Deputy Labour leader Angela Rayner
LABOUR is set to unveil plans to make flexible working “a force for good” open to all as part of an overhaul of employment rights.
Deputy leader Angela Rayner is expected to say today that flexibility for employees does not just concern home working but is about making sure that job commitments “fit around people’s lives, instead of dictating their lives.”
The Ashton-under-Lyne MP will commit a future Labour government to ending “one-sided flexibility” by offering flexitime, staggered hours and wriggle room around childcare and caring responsibilities to all from day one in a job.
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
Incoming Usdaw general secretary JOANNE THOMAS talks to Ben Chacko about workers’ rights, Labour and how to arrest the decline of the high street
Sharon Graham addresses the Unite policy conference after talks over the Birmingham bin strikes break down