{"id":3671,"date":"2021-10-06T07:40:00","date_gmt":"2021-10-06T06:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mirachsolicitors.com\/to-solve-labour-shortages-we-need-to-level-up-workers-rights"},"modified":"2021-10-06T07:40:00","modified_gmt":"2021-10-06T06:40:00","slug":"to-solve-labour-shortages-we-need-to-level-up-workers-rights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mirachsolicitors.com\/mirachwp\/to-solve-labour-shortages-we-need-to-level-up-workers-rights","title":{"rendered":"To solve labour shortages, we need to level up workers&#039; rights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We all deserve to be treated fairly at work.<br \/>\nBut the UK has too many jobs with low wages, long hours, and little stability.<br \/>\nThe solution to these problems is to level up workers&#8217; rights.\u00a0<br \/>\nBut too often our immigration system gets in the way of this happening, with migrants left vulnerable to exploitative bosses and dangerous working conditions.<br \/>\nWe do not need further panic-issued short-term visas for lorry drivers or butchers &#8211; we need meaningful change to strengthen rights for all workers.<br \/>\nWhat can the Government do about labour shortages?<br \/>\nMinnie Rahman, our Interim Chief Executive, speaks on the &#8216;Oh God What Now&#8217; podcast about the UK&#8217;s labour shortages and what the Government can do to resolve them.<br \/>\nYouTube Video https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=fJW2xt38jIY<\/p>\n<p>Read more and join our campaign to level up rights for all workers<br \/>\nPhoto credit: Two men walk past a freight lorry queuing to enter the Port of Dover, Kent, PA<br \/>\nJoin us at stand up for a fairer society<br \/>\nJoin us and&#8230;<br \/><embed style=\"cursor: pointer;\" src=\"\" type=\"\"><\/embed><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We all deserve to be treated fairly at work. But the UK has too many jobs with low wages, long hours, and little stability. The solution to these problems is to level up workers&#8217; rights.\u00a0 But too often our immigration system gets in the way of this happening, with migrants left vulnerable to exploitative bosses&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mirachsolicitors.com\/mirachwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3671"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mirachsolicitors.com\/mirachwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mirachsolicitors.com\/mirachwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mirachsolicitors.com\/mirachwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mirachsolicitors.com\/mirachwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3671"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mirachsolicitors.com\/mirachwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3671\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mirachsolicitors.com\/mirachwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mirachsolicitors.com\/mirachwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mirachsolicitors.com\/mirachwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}