Labour’s Employment Rights Act will fuel Britain’s youth unemployment crisis, bosses have warned, as joblessness among 16-24-year-olds hits 11-year highs. Retail chiefs said new regulation aimed at strengthening worker security and empowering unions risked “choking off the routes into a first job for the next generation”. The British Retail Consortium’s (BRC) estimates suggest companies will be forced to cut more than 160,000 part-time jobs in retail if employment costs rise further. This would come on ...