Bosses’ zero-hours contracts obsession has sent workers’ rights back to an age where miners’ pay was decided by the price of coal, industrial experts have claimed.
A Wales TUC paper launched at the Welsh Assembly last night warns the assault on workers’ rights could result in the re-emergence of “sliding scale” pay.
Zero-hours contracts are making working people a “dispensable commodity” for bosses, authors Dr Karen Williams and Dr Jean Jenkins argue.
LUKE FLETCHER outlines Plaid Cymru bold plans for wide-ranging policy consultations with trade unions in Wales
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


