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 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
