It will also aim to prevent businesses from opting out of equal pay arrangements for agency employees. The business secretary, Greg Clark, will announce the plan today but TUC chief Frances O’Grady says the package does nothing for workers on zero-hours contracts and those in the gig economy. Promises, promises – Theresa May made another promise in 2016 – namely to deliver Brexit – but that is proving more difficult to keep. In a dispatch box appearance later today she will plead with MPs to back her Brexit deal or risk destroying voters’ faith in democracy. The Guardian has: “New EU vote ‘would break faith with the people’ – May”.

Source: The Guardian December 17, 2018 06:11 UTC