The TUC has published the first in a series of newsletters to help vulnerable workers find out more about their basic employment rights at work.

Vulnerable workers include temporary, low-paid and part-time workers. They can suffer because they do not know their rights at work, and it can be difficult to move from insecure work into better paid permanent jobs. They can struggle to get their rights enforced and often fall through gaps in employment law, which means they do not enjoy decent minimum standards at work.

'Enforcing Minimum Workplace Rights and Bargaining for More' is published by the TUC's Union Modernisation Fund Vulnerable Workers Project and contains information for vulnerable workers and union reps about how to secure the national minimum wage, and an update on new equal treatment rights for agency workers which will apply from October 2011.