Left Foot Forward
Workers to get right to request four-day week under Labour’s workers’ rights overhaul
In reforms designed to shift the balance of power from companies to workers, a system of “compressed hours”, which lets an employee work their contracted week’s hours in four days rather than five, will be included in the package of new rights for workers.
Esther McVey condemned for comparing smoking ban with Nazi Germany
'This is grossly offensive from someone who sat at the Tory cabinet table just months ago.'
The government must abandon Tory policies and give people hope
The government is continuing with Tory policies which would deepen despair and push more people into the arms of right-wing extremists.
Outsourced cleaners at £24,000-a-year private school who had pay unlawfully slashed by 12% secure pay deal
When their pay was unlawfully slashed by 12%, taking it to a lower rate of £11.55 per hour, the cleaners voted unanimously to strike
IFS backs Rachel Reeves’s claim that Labour inherited a worse financial situation than expected
So much for the Tories being the party of ‘sound finances’.
The government shouldn’t ignore workers’ rights in post-Brexit trade deals
Trade unions must be consulted and have a seat at the table