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Ending zero hours contracts and granting full employment rights from day one are at the core of Labour’s workers ­charter unveiled tomorrow.

Jeremy Corbyn is promising a workplace revolution to give the shop floor more clout.

Bosses will no longer be allowed to recruit foreign cheap labour to undercut workers at home.

Laws to ensure interns are paid and all workers have the right to be represented by trade unions will be passed if Mr Corbyn becomes PM.

Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell said: “The next Labour government will bring an end to the rigged economy many experience in Britain’s workplaces.

“When voters go to the polls they will be voting for a change in the balance of power at work.”

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Shadow Business Secretary Rebecca Long-Bailey said: “Labour seeks not only to extend workers’ rights but enforce them too.”

The party’s 20-point plan also includes a £10 an hour minimum wage by 2020, ending the pay cap on public sector workers, and bosses of firms bidding for government contracts banned from earning more than 20 times that of their lowest-paid worker.

Firms will no longer be able to make women redundant because of pregnancy or child commitments and paid paternity leave will be doubled to four weeks.

Applicants fighting unfair dismissal at tribunals would no longer have to pay fees, unions would get access to all workplaces, and workers and pensioners would be protected in takeovers.

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The repeal of the Trade Union Act would bring back collective bargaining. And a public inquiry would be launched to ensure union activists could not be blacklisted by their industries.

There would also be four extra bank holidays a year, bringing Britain in line with the G20 average of 12 days off.

Mr McDonnell condemned the “scandal” of six million people earning less than the living wage and four million children growing up in poverty, adding: “It only takes a change of government to bring these outrages to an end.”

Giving workers equal rights from the day they are employed means no time spent qualifying to get them.

Under the present system agency workers can be denied equal pay, holidays and maternity leave until they have been in post 12 weeks.

Nearly a million people currently on zero hours contracts would have their hours guaranteed and be paid compensation when shifts were suddenly cancelled.

Collective pay agreements across industry sectors would mean an earnings floor so foreign workers could not be hired at lower rates.

A £10 minimum wage for everyone over 18 would make 5.6 million £2,500 a year better off than under current Tory plans.

Top-paid executives now earn 50 times more than bosses did in the past. Under Labour they will only get Government contracts if the highest-paid in the company get around £350,000 tops.

Unite General Secretary Len McCluskey said of the charter: “This is the antidote to the uncertainty and insecurity which plagues working life for millions.