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Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner speaking at the Labour Party Conference in Liverpool, September 22, 2024
LABOUR has vowed to end the Tories’ “scorched-earth approach to industrial relations” as its highly anticipated Employment Rights Bill is laid before Parliament today.
Unions welcomed the “groundbreaking first step” towards a “new chapter for working people in this country.”
Unveiled weeks ahead of this month’s Budget, the legislation will enact 28 individual employment reforms including ending “exploitative” zero hours contracts and fire-and-rehire practices.
Labour’s long-promised Act has scraped through the Lords. While the law marks a step forward, its lack of collective rights leaves workers short-changed — and sets the stage for a renewed campaign for an Employment Rights Bill #2, argues TONY BURKE
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