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LOW-PAID workers are five times more likely to be furloughed on reduced pay during the second lockdown, new analysis shows.
Fears that minimum-wage earners will be plunged into poverty have arisen as England is put under the month-long lockdown due to start on Thursday.
The second national lockdown announced on Saturday, which will be voted on in the Commons tomorrow, also came with an 11th-hour announcement that the furlough scheme will be extended — on the day it was due to end.
The visa system traps workers with abusive employers, creating a vulnerable workforce scared to complain for fear of deportation — that is why we’re campaigning for a ‘common sponsorship’ model instead, writes FAVOUR DAVIDKING
Artists should not be consigned to a life of precarious working – they deserve dignity and proper workers’ rights, argues ZITA HOLBOURNE
