Labour must not cave in to pressure over zero-hours contracts | Letters
07-05-2024 18:03 via theguardian.com

Labour must not cave in to pressure over zero-hours contracts | Letters

Readers respond to the party’s watered-down plan to appease businessesIt is disheartening to read that not only is Labour planning to further dilute its employee rights package but that it is doing so to appease businesses (Labour’s ‘new deal for workers’ will not fully ban zero-hours contracts, 1 May). Your article appeared online on May Day. You don’t have to wrap yourself in the red flag and sing The Internationale to recognise that having a motivated, educa
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