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UNEMPLOYED people will have their benefits stopped if they refuse exploitative zero-hours contracts that may not lead to paid work, it was revealed yesterday.
Job-seekers risk losing payments for over three months if they fail to take the contracts, despite there being no guarantee of minimum working hours once they accept the position.
The Public and Commercial Services (PCS) union said the Tories were attempting “to demonise and punish unemployed people.”
Labour will find increases in the state pension age are unacceptable, just as cuts to the Winter Fuel Allowance, personal independence payments and universal credit are — it needs to change direction immediately, writes PCS general secretary FRAN HEATHCOTE
Labour must not allow unelected members of the upper house to erode a single provision of the Employment Rights Bill, argues ANDY MCDONALD MP
In the current climate, it is vital to bust the myths and put forward the case for a humane and decent social security system that supports people, argues FRAN HEATHCOTE
