ALL WORKERS SHOULD POSSESS EQUAL EMPLOYMENT RIGHTS
by Kenan Malik
This essay, on the need for “single status” for workers, was my Observer column this week. It was published on 27 August 2023, under the headline “Labour’s backtracking on casual workers will weaken the rights of all employees”. If you have a job, are you a worker or an employee? In everyday conversation, it is a distinction without meaning, and the two are usually taken to be synonymous and used interchangeably. In British law, though, workers and employees form discrete categories. Legally, […]
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