The Labour Party is making a massive deal of its Employment Rights Bill today which it hailed as the “biggest upgrade to workers’ rights in a generation.” Current laws have created an “economy riven by insecurity, ravaged by dire productivity and blighted by low pay”…

It looks like some Labour MPs haven’t got the memo about the “insecure work” on which Labour is set to crack down. Labour’s “Make Work Pay” plan is in a broad-brush consultative stage, with most changes coming into force in late 2026 once agreed. Labour is targeting fixed-term contracts where work is not “genuinely temporary.” It looks like some of its MPs haven’t got the memo…

While almost all Labour MPs hire on permanent contracts from day one, at least four MPs, including the Solicitor General, are currently advertising fixed-term contracts “with a view” to make them permanent. That is, permanent work…

Taiwo Owatemi, Sarah Sackman, Paulette Hamilton, and Naushabah Khan are all employing the tactic with various contract lengths. Not the most “secure” employment for the staffers as the Labour MPs try to keep their options open. Labour says it’s targeting exactly that skullduggery – will it make an example of its own MPs?