Ground zero Labour to ban no-hours contracts & reset rights
Bunker mentality of soundbite-loving May’
LABOUR today unveil a workers charter – with policies including granting job rights from day one and banning zero hours contracts.
Jeremy Corbyn is pledging a workplace revolution giving the shop floor more power. Firms will no longer be allowed to recruit cheap foreign labour to undercut wages.
Laws to ensure interns are paid and all workers have a right to union representation will be passed if Mr Corbyn becomes PM.
Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell said: “The next Labour government will bring an end to the rigged economy many experience in Britain’s workplaces.
“At the polls people will be voting for a change in the balance of power at work.”
The party’s 20-point plan also includes a JEREMY Corbyn yesterday accused Theresa May of slipping into a “bunker mentality”.
The Labour leader said the Prime Minister was more about soundbites than empowering people. And in a major campaign speech in London £10-an-hour minimum wage by 2020 and ending the pay cap on public sector workers. Bosses of firms bidding for government contracts would be banned from earning more than 20 times their lowest-paid staff.
Mr McDonnell condemned the “scandal” of six million earning less than the living wage and four million children growing up in poverty, adding: “It only takes a change of government to end these outrages.”
Nearly a million people currently on zero hours contracts would have their hours guaranteed and be paid compensation when shifts were suddenly cancelled.
Mr McDonnell also said he would raise Corporation Tax to fund NHS staff pay rises and extra health workers. Income tax would he told supporters that Nineties Labour politicians were wrong to “buy in” to Conservative ideas about the free market.
Mr Corbyn told a packed crowd of supporters, including actress Maxine Peake: “Barely nine months into Theresa May’s premiership, there are clear warning signs that she and her rise from 45 to 500 per cent for those earning more than £150,000. 000. And Capital Gains for higher earners will be 28 per cent. The taxfree sum coupleses could pass on in a will would halve from m £850,000 to £425,000.
He said: “It’s about fairness and protecting those on middleddle and low incomes.”
Mr McDonnell ell also wants to invest in skills so Britain can compete globally.
The Conservative ive lead has been cut to 17 points, says a new Opinium poll. Labour gained four pointsnts to reach 30%, with h the Tories up two to 47%. closest advisers are slipping into that presidential bunker mentality. Whereas it is the job of leadership to hold open the space for dissent, new thinking and fit-for-purpose policy.
“So while it might not be the stuff of soundbites, I have always believed in standing firm and empowering others to make up their minds and come on board when they are ready. He said this was “the mindset that gets community centres and nurseries built, and increasingly defends them from closure.
“It is the mindset that negotiates hard for better conditions in the workplace. It is the mindset that serves the many, not the few.”