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Labour chairman Ian Lavery
A LOOPHOLE allowing employers to sack workers and rehire them on worse pay and conditions during the coronavirus crisis must be closed immediately, Labour’s Ian Lavery said today.
The Wansbeck MP and former Labour Party chair tabled an early day motion (EDM) called the “Immoral Use of Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme” (CJRS).
It notes that 1.1 million employers and 9.2m jobs are being supported by the scheme as of 21 June, to the cost of £22.9 billion to the taxpayer.
Reversing outsourcing is the pre-election promise the government must honour, says Unison general secretary CHRISTINA McANEA
Labour must not allow unelected members of the upper house to erode a single provision of the Employment Rights Bill, argues ANDY MCDONALD MP
The Bill addresses some exploitation but leaves trade unions heavily regulated, most workers without collective bargaining coverage, and fails to tackle the balance of power that enables constant mutation of bad practice, write KEITH EWING and LORD JOHN HENDY KC
Ben Chacko talks to RMT leader EDDIE DEMPSEY about how the key to fixing broken Britain lies in collective sectoral bargaining, restoring unions’ ability to take solidarity strike action and bringing about the much-vaunted ‘wave of insourcing’