Insecure work: why employment rights need an overhaul
"Government inaction has left 3.7 million people in insecure work.
Despite the Government's promise to make Britain the best place in the world to work, huge numbers of workers don't know when their next shift will be or if they will be able to pay their bills.
It is notable that five years after the report of the Taylor Review of modern working practices that most of its flagship measures remain unimplemented. And the employment bill ministers repeatedly committed to appears to have been shelved.
Instead, the government has sought to attack trade union rights by imposing a levy on unions, making it easier for agency workers to be brought in for striking workers and upping the damages employers can claim for industrial action.
We need a new approach that restores power to workers to negotiate better rights."
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