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A UK Government spokesperson said, according to the BBC: 'The UK has one of the best workers' rights records in the world'.
This is just not true, and there are too many examples to illustrate this. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-55656593
This is just not true, and there are too many examples to illustrate this. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-55656593
For example, here I discuss how Universal Credit, one of the harshest welfare conditionality schemes in the world, forces people into exploitative work and in work poverty (I can share a copy if you can't access it): https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/1468-2230.12530
Alan Bogg discussed the Trade Union Act in this piece arguing that it is authoritarian and repressive @thebigbogg https://academic.oup.com/ilj/article-abstract/45/3/299/1750051
And here I argue how several UK laws create vulnerability to exploitation and patterns of exploitation that become all the more widespread, standard and routine (happy to share if you don't have access): https://academic.oup.com/clp/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/clp/cuaa003/5918202?redirectedFrom=fulltext
The lower the external supervision of the UK's record on labour and other human rights, the better it is for the Government, as they regularly show by ignoring and questioning international standards. But they absolutely cannot claim to be a standard-setter.
