Key Policy
End the persecution of claimants by the DWP and protect welfare payments
Description
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Corresponding Charter Article
Everyone has the right to work, to free choice of employment, to just and favourable conditions of work and to protection against unemployment. Everyone, without any discrimination, has the right to equal pay for equal work. Everyone who works has the right to just and favourable remuneration ensuring for themselves and any dependents an existence worthy of human dignity, and supplemented if necessary by other means of social protection. Everyone has the right to form and to join a trade union for the protection of their interests. Where workers form or invite a union to represent their rights, the union will have fair representation at executive level witin an organisation.
Policies
EQ131 Scrap Universal Credit (UC)
EQ132 Immediately stop moving people onto UC and replace with auto tax credit
EQ137 Ensure that employment support is positive not punitive
EQ140 Pay childcare costs up front so that parents are not forced to turn down work or get into debt to pay for childcare
EQ143 End the digital barrier and offer telephone, face-to- face and outreach support and recruit additional welfare advisors to deliver this
EQ144 Scrap the bedroom tax