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LABOUR members against the EU took issue with TUC claims yesterday that workers’ rights could be thrown on the scrapheap if Britain votes to leave.
Researchers of the TUC’s report said “no-one can say” whether paid annual leave, time off for antenatal appointments and fair treatment for part-time workers could be maintained if Britain left the EU.
TUC general secretary Frances O’Grady said: “Working people have a huge stake in the referendum because workers’ rights are on the line.
NICK TROY lauds the young staff at a hotel chain and cinema giant who are ready to take on the bosses for their rights
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
CWU leader DAVE WARD tells Ben Chacko a strategy to unite workers on class lines is needed – and sectoral collective bargaining must be at its heart
Labour must not allow unelected members of the upper house to erode a single provision of the Employment Rights Bill, argues ANDY MCDONALD MP