'We’re talking about a whole group of workers who even before the pandemic were suffering from work insecurity and low pay'
HEALTH workers have been the heroes and heroines of this past Covid year but for all our doorstep applause they are being let down by employers imposing unfair working practices on them.
That is the verdict of workers’ representatives who are warning political parties canvassing for our votes for next month’s Holyrood elections that they expect them to make employees’ rights a priority.
Responding to research from the Living Wage Foundation whose survey of 2000 UK adults showed that almost two in five workers are given less than a week’s notice of their shifts or work patterns, Dave Moxham, deputy general secretary of the STUC, called for action.