MINISTERS were told not to listen to tired arguments from vested interests today after Britain’s biggest business groups wrote to the government lobbying for changes to the Employment Rights Bill.

The legislation promises to crack down on zero-hours contracts, provide sick pay for all workers and repeal the Tories’ draconian Minimum Service Levels Act. 

But in an open letter, the British Chambers of Commerce, Confederation of British Industry, Institute of Directors, Federation of Small Businesses and Make UK claimed the Bill will “have deeply damaging implications for the government’s priority growth mission.”