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A new Bill for all workers
LORD JOHN HENDY QC presents a Bill that aims to create the single legal category of 'worker' to give all those who work for a wage the same statutory rights as recognised employees
Deliveroo riders from the Independent Workers' Union of Great Britain (IWGB) near Shoreditch, east London, as they go on strike in a dispute for fair pay, safety protections and basic workers' rights

DESPITE promising an Employment Bill on several occasions since it was elected in 2019, the government has now dropped the idea from its legislative programme. 

It has recognised that a number of things need to be put right for Britain’s 32 million workers and vowed in its election manifesto that it “will build on existing employment law with measures that protect those in low paid work and the gig economy” by introducing “a raft of measures.” But nothing has been done. 

So I have drafted a Bill to deal with a particular problem, one acknowledged by the Tories. 

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