Work Pensions and Benefits
- Advocate for a universal £20/hour minimum wage tied to inflation or average earnings.
- Enforce a 32-hour workweek without pay cuts, banning insecure zero-hour contracts.
- Premium payments for unsocial hours.
- Ensure day-one rights, ending bosses’ misuse of ‘self-employment’ to evade worker rights.
- Reject austerity, demanding wage increases in line with price growth.
- Investigate companies claiming financial constraints, providing subsidies for small businesses.
- Lower retirement age to 60, replacing universal credit with real living benefits.