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UNIONS condemned the Chancellor’s plans to allow superstores to extend Sunday opening hours yesterday, warning that more work would encroach on workers’ family lives and free time.
In his “emergency” Budget today, George Osborne will outline proposals to be included in the Enterprise Bill that would give mayors and councils the power to relax Sunday trading restrictions in their area.
The move is at odds with Prime Minister David Cameron’s promise to Keep Sunday Special campaigners last April that he would not change the law.
It is rather strange that Labour continues to give prestigious roles to inappropriate, controversy-mired businessmen who are also major Tory donors. What could Labour possibly be hoping to get out of it, asks SOLOMON HUGHES
Incoming Usdaw general secretary JOANNE THOMAS talks to Ben Chacko about workers’ rights, Labour and how to arrest the decline of the high street