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TODAY'S Queen's Speech will be "unashamedly pro-work, pro-business and pro-aspiration", David Cameron and Nick Clegg insist, saying the pensions revolution signalled by the Chancellor in this year's Budget will be at the heart of the Coalition's final year of Government. 
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The Labour leader promises to introduce safeguards for workers on the contracts which he argues have "spread like an epidemic".
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Labour leader Ed Miliband has promised to introduce new rights for workers on zero hour contracts, if his party wins the next election.
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The zero-hours contract - alongside the payday loan and the bad bank - has gained a kind of totemic significance in the public imagination.
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Sue Marsh: Rachel Reeves and Kate Green are moving Labour away from defining the problem as one of 'shirkers' who can work but don't
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Labour has said it will make the serious exploitation of migrant workers a criminal offence if it gains power.
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Rachel Reeves: Basic skills are key to employment for the young
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The Chancellor says he wants the highest proportion of people in work in the G7 but slammed Labour's attempts to cut dole queues by guaranteeing full employment
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Labour accuses government of handing out redundancy cheques 'like confetti' while thousands are denied pay rises
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YESTERDAY I set out how reforms to earn our way out of the cost-of-living crisis and social security changes to ensure the system is fair and affordable go hand in hand.
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Rachel Reeves, Labour’s work and pensions spokesman, said she would restore a direct link between contributions and handouts.
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Parties also need to reduce childcare and housing costs, improve the quality of part-time jobs and create better progression routes for low paid workers.
Olivia Win's comment,
January 27, 2014 11:47 PM
yes, i agree that increasing the minimum wage is not fully preventing poverty, but only one of the means to try to prevent poverty. there are still quite alot of things to be taken care of in poverty. as poverty is a very serious condition that most people all over the world knows about it, not alot of people is helping out with it. major changes in the society have to be done in order to help with out with poverty.
Olivia Win's curator insight,
January 28, 2014 10:58 PM
yes, i agree that increasing the minimum wage is not fully preventing poverty, but only one of the means to try to prevent poverty. there are still quite alot of things to be taken care of in poverty. as poverty is a very serious condition that most people all over the world knows about it, not alot of people is helping out with it. major changes in the society have to be done in order to help with out with poverty. 
Krithigah Muthukumar's curator insight,
February 23, 2014 1:18 AM
I agree that increasing wage is not the only solution for poverty. Not just in London is there problems like this. In the news I have heard that though we have an increase the wage all over other expenses are increasing in price. Some people have to take of old people, little children bedridden therefore many expenses are to made. While reading this article I thought of the government supporting the family in poor income or people who really cannot effort the expenses they have to make this way it will be helpful for the people who needs help. It seems obvious that raising the minimum wage eg. like increasing take up of the Living Wage would reduce in-work poverty by increasing overall household incomes. I am still confused about an increase in the pay still isn’t enough for the people. Why cant the government help the people in poverty. Is it that hard to help them? Or why is the increase in wage isn’t enough. Why do they exceed their expenses? .
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Labour have pledged to close an agency workers loophole, in a bid to prevent low skill migration making the cost-of-living crisis worse.
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The party previously suggested that workers would be offered a fixed-hours contract after 12 weeks. But that period has been extended to a year.
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Ed Miliband won't be able to ban zero hours contracts, but he is tackling the worst way they are abused, writes James Bloodworth.
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Labour cabinet travelling north to unveil review into contracts, claiming independence will make it difficult to regulate them
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A promise to ban zero-hours contracts which exploit workers will be included in the Labour manifesto for next year’s general election, Ed Miliband will announce on Friday.
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Yvette Cooper admits Labour did make mistakes on immigration as she announces tough new measures to tackle cheap migrant workers.
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Britain’s major towns and cities would be handed £4 billion a year to boost jobs and growth by a Labour Government, Ed Miliband will announce on Tuesday.
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George Osborne has pledged to aim for full employment in the UK by 2020 - but immediately ran into a row over what he means by the term.
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Deborah Orr: Ed Miliband's 'cost-of-living crisis' is just a symptom of a market system not delivering the prosperity its proponents promise
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Ministers have come under pressure to stop helping young people work in strip clubs and porn film sets as the government offers £2,275 for every full-time job provided to an 18 to 24-year old. Those looking to take on young unemployed people for jobs like working behind the bar in a strip club, or on a porn film set but not as a performer behind the camera, can be eligible for a £2,275 "wage incentive" under the government's "Youth Contract".
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Labour leader Ed Miliband welcomed the latest employment figures but attacked David Cameron because more than half of 13 million living in poverty have jobs
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Rachel Reeves for LabourList: Britain must earn its way out of the cost-of-living crisis and in so doing create a social security system that is sustainable
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Many in the party would like Miliband to pledge to raise the minimum wage to the level of the living wage, but a large rise in the former is more likely.
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