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The King’s Speech is a historic milestone for our movement, we wouldn’t have come this far without your support. But let’s not kid ourselves – bad bosses are coordinating attacks on the New Deal in the press and across the media. They’re determined to undermine and unpick it, so they have free rein to carry on driving down pay and conditions.

Imagine a future where fair pay, job security, better work-life balance, and stronger rights are the norm, not the exception. We’re nearly there. This is our chance to make history and build a society that truly values working people.

 

4.1 million UK workers promised big boost to wages and sick pay in Labour plans

Union leaders say Labour’s New Deal for Working People will be a game-changer in ending precarious employment such as zero-hours contracts, low-paid self-employment and casual/seasonal work

The work to get our country back after 14 years of Tory chaos has already begun

Rayner reiterates Labour’s commitment to a New Deal for Working People

Labour’s Deputy leader says a new Labour Government will introduce draft legislation within 100 days of an election victory

Employment rights will be a game changer for workers

The doomsters were wrong about the minimum wage. They’re wrong about Labour’s new deal for workers, too

This is a policy that could make a radical difference – as long as it’s not watered down like the green prosperity plan

Labour says it will stick with workers’ rights plans despite Mandelson remarks

Party says it is committed to policies such as zero-hours ban after peer warned against ‘rushing’ changes

How Labour’s plan for ‘fair pay’ deals looks to solve UK social care crisis

Low pay, long hours and poor working conditions have badly damaged morale and promoted staff shortages in the UK’s social care system.

Labour Calls For Mandatory Ethnicity Pay Gap Reporting As Discrepancy Remains

Shadow women and equalities secretary Anneliese Dodds has called for a Race Equality Act.

Scottish Government urged to back Labour’s new deal for working people

The policy would see an end to zero-hours contracts and fire and rehire practices.

Disability pay gap higher than it was a decade ago says TUC

The pay gap between non-disabled and disabled workers is higher than it was a decade ago, according to a new analysis by the Trades Union Congress.

Labour will restore hope, opportunity for all, and the truth of the saying ‘a fair day’s work for a fair day’s pay’ 

Economic justice and economic growth are not in conflict. They are two sides of the same coin, says Scottish Labour deputy leader Jackie Baillie.

Labour optimistic in ‘huge’ byelection in Rutherglen and Hamilton West

The campaign has concentrated on deputy leader Angela Rayner’s “new deal for working people” – a package that includes protections against unfair dismissal, a ban on zero-hours contracts, more flexible working and an end to “fire and rehire” practices.

 

Rayner to strengthen workers’ rights ‘within Labour’s first 100 days in office’

The deputy Labour leader told her party’s conference that the New Deal for Working People would not be watered down.

 

Labour planning ‘right to switch off’ for workers if it wins general election

Policy would restrict bosses from contacting workers outside of hours by phone or email

 

Even Tory voters support Labour’s workers’ rights offer, new polling finds

New polling by Opinium for the Trades Union Congress has found strong support for the proposals in Labour’s New Deal for Working People, even among Conservative voters.

 

Labour MSP Katy Clark pledges new deal for workers

Working people are seeking urgent change after 13 years of Tory attacks on working people and the trade union movement.

 

“The biggest upgrade of workers’ rights in a generation”

Angela Rayner, Deputy leader of the Labour party, answers questions from Kate Bell, the TUC’s assistant general secretary.

 

Labour conference commits to expansion of workers’ rights

Labour Party conference has today endorsed a motion calling for a raft of workers’ rights under the New Deal for Working People.

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