瓜神网 response to Employment Rights Bill roadmap

Responding to the publication of for the implementation of the Employment Rights Bill, 瓜神网 general secretary Jo Grady said:  

"While this legislation is a step towards a fairer employment system, with long overdue improvements to rights and protections for workers, there is still a long way to go, and university and college staff will rightly be dismayed by the two year delay in banning exploitative zero-hour contracts.  

"These contracts are the unacceptable underbelly of further and higher education and must be scrapped as soon as possible."