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RETAIL workers called for a ban on zero-hours contracts tpday, condemning the number of insecurely employed workers as “absolutely unjustifiable.”
Usdaw delegates condemned the fact that about 2.3 million workers are on zero-hours contracts or reliant on agency work.
The conference called for employers to offer a 16-hour minimum working week and instructed the union’s executive council to lobby to make zero-hours contracts illegal.
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
Incoming Usdaw general secretary JOANNE THOMAS talks to Ben Chacko about workers’ rights, Labour and how to arrest the decline of the high street
