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BRITISH workers have suffered the biggest growth in insecure employment out of all the countries of the EU, according to a TUC study published today.
Researchers found that Britain tops the EU league table for growth in self-employment and ranks third for growth in temporary workers.
The report links the significant growth in insecure forms of employment in Britain to weak legal protections for those in bogus self-employment, agency work and on zero-hours contracts.
Employment lawyer ALICE BOWMAN warns ‘day one rights’ include an undefined ‘initial period’ and the zero-hours contract fixes create baffling fixed-term loopholes. If the Bill doesn’t work properly and deliver, Labour is doomed
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