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Friday’s report showed that employers added 227,000 net new jobs in November, led by big gains in healthcare and leisure and hospitality.

A Los Angeles federal judge ruled on Monday that wardrobe assistant Asha Daniels could not sue the Grammy winner as an individual, after identifying the singer's touring and payroll companies as her employers.

While many employers have more generous sick pay schemes, around one in four workers have to rely on the legal minimum.

Yet relations between Westminster and Holyrood are being tested by a row over the UK government's plans to increase employers' National Insurance from April.

"There is nothing in our legal system that actually forces employers to have systems in place," Ms Raphael said.