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(left to right) Tracy Brabin Mayor of West Yorkshire, Labour Party deputy leader Angela Rayner, Labour Party leader Sir Keir Starmer, Richard Parker Mayor of the West Midlands and shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves during a meeting with Labour's newly expanded team of mayors, May 13, 2024
LABOUR confirmed today that it would implement in full the package of workers’ rights negotiated with trade unions.
Following a make-or-break meeting between Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer and union leaders on Tuesday, a spokesman said today that consultation with business on the reforms would only focus on “implementation” and not on the policies themselves.
They will include all those agreed by the party’s national policy forum last July, he confirmed.
Labour’s watered-down legislation won’t protect us from unfair dismissal or ban some zero-hours contracts until 2027 — leaving millions of young people vulnerable to the populist right’s appeal, warns TUC young workers chair FRASER MCGUIRE
Labour must not allow unelected members of the upper house to erode a single provision of the Employment Rights Bill, argues ANDY MCDONALD MP
The Bill addresses some exploitation but leaves trade unions heavily regulated, most workers without collective bargaining coverage, and fails to tackle the balance of power that enables constant mutation of bad practice, write KEITH EWING and LORD JOHN HENDY KC