Government plans to improve UK workers’ rights ‘lack crucial details’, says top thinktank

A report by the Autonomy Institute says Labour proposals contain too many ambiguities and stresses that pledges must be delivered in full

The Labour government's highly publicised plans to improve workers' rights and end years of stagnating wages, insecure jobs and in-work poverty are full of ambiguities and lack crucial detail, a leading thinktank on the future of work has concluded.

A report by the Autonomy Institute, which promotes a fairer and more democratic economy, says the new deal for working people has the potential to move the UK's labour market on from a lost decade" of increasing exploitation, while at the same time playing a key role in Keir Starmer's mission to drive up economic growth.