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REFORM’S pro-worker mask has slipped, the TUC said today, after all its MPs joined the Tories in opposing Labour’s employment rights law.
Nigel Farage’s Commons contingent voted against the legislation despite polling showing that its main provisions are highly popular in their own constituencies.
TUC general secretary Paul Nowak said: “Reform and the Conservatives have shown their true colours once again.
“Instead of voting for common-sense reforms, like banning exploitative zero-hours contracts and day-one access to sick pay, they have voted to deny millions basic protections at work.
“Nigel Farage is not on the side of working people. He’s a political fraud, defying his own constituents to oppose stronger workers’ rights.”
TUC polling has shown that more than 70 per cent of voters in all Reform-held constituencies, including Mr Farage’s Clacton, back a ban on zero-hour contracts and giving workers the right to sick pay from day one of a new job.
The Employment Rights Bill passed its third and final Commons reading by 333 votes to 100 on Wednesday night, so it will shortly become law.
