Under cover of Covid, British workers' rights are being quietly stripped away | Polly Toynbee
There will be no end-of-lockdown bank holiday, as the prime minister says people have had enough “days off” and must get “ back into the office” immediately.
There will be no end-of-lockdown bank holiday, as the prime minister says people have had enough “days off” and must get “back into the office” immediately. That shows how remotely Boris Johnson works and thinks. “Days off” is not how most would describe their pandemic year.
Parents working from home struggled to hold down a job while home-schooling, with no on-off switch for working time. Those forced to go out to work, especially the low paid, took risks that saw many infected. Covid deepened the economic divide, with poorer earners falling. Even young now call their treatment “abusive” – these golden “meritocracy” winners are protesting about their 95-hour weeks.
