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Diluting Employment Rights Bill now would hurt both businesses and jobs, TUC warns
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DELIVERING the Employment Rights Bill in full will provide a better economic foundation for both businesses and workers, the TUC said today as statistics showed more than million workers remain on zero-hours contracts.
The Office for National Statistics (ONS) said that the number of insecure contracts are still high at 1.13 million.
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