In Scotland, zero-hour contracts have hit record highs, with many people under employed with contracts averaging just 18.4 hours a week – far less than the stability needed to build a secure life.
Knowing that we will finally ban zero-hour contracts, end fire-and-rehire and repeal anti-strike laws made the atmosphere in Brighton so different from last year’s Congress – or any Congress in the last decade.
There is still more to be done…
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.
Amazon now faces an outstanding legal challenge – known as an Inducement Claim – for pressuring workers into cancelling their union membership during the ballot period.
The trade union movement is ready to do what we can to work with Keir Starmer and his new Labour government to deliver the change working families desperately need.
Luke Fletcher MS sets outs Plaid Cymru’s policies on workers’ rights
Labour’s pledges received praise, but also warnings that it hasn’t gone far enough for some leading unions
‘They’re threatening us with a good time!’
It would appear the ‘minister for common sense’ is out-of-touch with the large majority of public opinion
