LABOUR’S pledge to ban zero-hours contracts does not go far enough as there are no guarantees on how long the Tories will stay out of power, a trade union leader has warned.
STUC General Secretary Roz Foyer has called for devolution of employment law to Scotland over concerns it has the highest proportion of workers on these type of contracts in the UK.
But deputy Labour leader Angela Rayner last week rejected calls for devolved employment law – which have also been made by the SNP – saying they are not needed under the party’s ‘new deal’ for workers.
The number of zero-hours contracts in use north of the Border increased from 105,000 to 109,000 in the quarter between April to June, according to the latest Labour Force survey from the Office for National Statistics (ONS).
Scotland leads the way in the UK for use of these contracts, with 4.1% of workers employed on them, compared to 3.6% in England, 3.2% in Wales and 1.5% in Northern Ireland.
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Foyer told the Sunday National: “We absolutely would favour the devolution of employment law at the STUC, that has been a longstanding policy and it is something we would very much like to see any incoming Labour government seriously consider.
“There are a number of reasons for that – one is that much that while we will welcome the fact we have got potentially a UK Labour government that is going to come in and has made commitments they will outlaw zero-hour contracts,...
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