THE Employment Rights Bill falls short of redressing the imbalance of power between workers and employers and trade unions need to push Labour harder to improve it, Lord John Hendy KC told the GFTU conference today.

The veteran labour movement lawyer said the law would improve current workplace rights, citing positives including improvements to sick pay and parental leave, as well as better union rights to access workplaces.

But “if you judge it against the standard of the Labour Party policy adopted in 2021, it falls far short,” he warned.