The labour MP Paul Farrelly could not get his bill to legislate on temp workers' rights through after the government refused to support it. Unions and labour MPs expressed their concern. (Ref. 070934)
During the inter-union congress last September, the Prime Minister Gordon Brown had assured that he would support, at the European level, the union claim on matching temp workers’ rights with the rights of permanent workers (see our story No. 070760). Yet, a bill on this topic – not supported by the government – was rejected in Parliament. The bill’s author, Paul Farrelly, as well as other MPs and numerous unions, had however sent an open letter to the Prime Minister affirming that over one mi
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