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Samples are taken at a coronavirus testing facility in Temple Green Park and Ride, Leeds, in May 2020
SERCO has confirmed reports that many of its test-and-trace staff are on precarious “super-spreader contracts,” campaigners revealed yesterday.
In response to an enquiry by Labour MP Bell Ribeiro-Addy, the contractor admitted that many of its workers on the Covid-19 contact-tracing scheme are on temporary contracts with no right to company sick pay.
Fellow test-and-trace contractor G4S made a similar admission earlier this month after an enquiry by Labour MP Emily Thornberry.
Outsourcing is at the heart of inequality. Only collective unity in the trade union movement can topple the Establishment’s obsession with it, says SAM GURNEY
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
