STEPHEN Flynn has called on Keir Starmer to U-turn on his party’s “long-standing opposition” to giving Scotland control over employment law.
The SNP’s leader in Westminster wrote to the Labour leader on Monday to reiterate his desire to see the Scottish Parliament take control of the law on workers’ rights and trade unions.
Flynn said he had received no response from an earlier letter sent in January and offered to meet with Starmer to make the case for Scotland taking control of employment law.
The letter was sent just before MPs took to the Commons to debate the Government’s anti-strike laws, which will introduce “minimum service levels” – effectively barring some workers from striking to ensure trains and other public services continue to run during industrial action.
It comes after Scotland was revealed as the zero-hour contracts capital of the UK, with 3.9% of Scottish workers employed on insecure terms.
Flynn wrote: “I am forced to remind you that in January I wrote to you regarding this disgraceful legislation.
“I offered to work with you to obstruct and oppose this bill, but I also suggested we actively discuss the devolution of employment powers in order to permanently protect Scottish workers from these Tory attacks. I received no response to my offer.
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