LABOUR promised to transform the workplace “from the shop floor to the boardroom” yesterday as it unveiled a radical programme to strengthen security and equality at work.

Shadow chancellor John McDonnell and Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn outlined a 20-point plan that would commit a Labour government to policies including the banning of zero-hours contracts and scrapping the 1 per cent public-sector pay cap.

In a bid to tackle the “rigged economy,” Labour has pledged to raise the minimum wage to the living wage and scrap extortionate employment tribunal fees which have denied justice to many low-paid workers.

The party would repeal the Tory Trade Union Act as part of a commitment to “fighting inequality and securing decent work for people,” tackling low pay and insecure employment which has “mushroomed” under the Conservatives.

Under the plans Labour would also introduce four additional bank holidays to ensure that workers in Britain — which has the fewest public holidays of any EU country — get the same breaks as those in other countries.

Mr McDonnell said the plan sets out policies that would be “the cornerstone of the next Labour government’s programme to bring an end to the rigged economy that many experience in workplaces across Britain.

“The scandal of six million people earning less than the living wage and four million children growing up in poverty are not inevitable. It only takes a change of government to bring these outrages to an end.”

TUC general secretary Frances O’Grady hailed the “impressive set of commitments” which “would make a real difference for millions of hardworking Brits.”

And she said that all eyes would be on the Tories to see what their manifesto promised to working people.

Labour said its commitment to ending a six-year “unfair and politically motivated” public-sector pay freeze would ensure that “Britain has the workforce it needs to deliver world-leading public services.”

It said the estimated £5 billion needed to end the pay freeze would be paid for by bringing back the 50p additional rate of income tax and reversing cuts to corporation tax.

PCS general secretary Mark Serwotka said: “These commitments are in stark contrast to the current government’s repeated attacks on trade union rights, pay and conditions and the disregard the Tories have for civil and public services.”

Plans to abolish employment tribunal fees were welcomed by public-sector union Unison.

Unison general secretary Dave Prentis said: “Abolishing tribunal fees would once again give ordinary people who’ve been wronged at work the option to stand up to their law-breaking employers, and seek the justice so many have been denied under this government.”

Mr McDonnell said the plans would “update our country for the 21st century and prepare us for the economic challenges ahead” as he promised a Labour government would “transform the workplace from the shop floor up to the boardroom.”

“When voters go to the polls on June 8 they should know that if they vote Labour, they will be voting for a change in the balance of power not only in society but in their places of work.

“It will mean tearing up the Tory status quo that allows most people’s wages to fall behind prices, and allow them to start to share in the wealth they help to create.

“Only a Labour government led by Jeremy Corbyn will stand up for the many in our offices and factories, while the Tories are only prepared to protect big business and a wealthy few.”