Angela Rayner has set out Labours’ radical policies vowing the new Employment Rights Bill will be heard in Parliament in a few weeks’ time.
The Deputy Prime Minister said opening the Labour Party’s annual conference in Liverpool that changes are “coming to a workplace near you” and that they will ensure to “make work pay” for everyone.
Rayner pledged, “I promised the greatest upgrade for workers’ rights in a generation. Nothing less than a new deal for working people.
I can confirm that the Employment Rights Bill will be tabled in Parliament next month.
“They said we couldn’t do it, some tried to stop it in its tracks, but after years of opposition we are on the verge of historic legislation to make work more secure, make it more family friendly, go further and faster to close the gender pay gap, ensure rights are enforced and trade unions are strengthened.
“That means repealing the Tories’ anti-worker laws and new rights for union reps too.
“A genuine living wage and sick pay for the lowest earners, banning exploitative zero-hour contracts and unpaid internships and fire and re-hire, and we will bring in basic rights from day one on the job.
Conference, this is our plan to make work pay and it is coming to a workplace near you.
Martin McTague, the national chairman of the Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) warned last month that Labour’s new Employment Rights Bill will cripple many smalls businesses.
McTague warned, “The biggest harms will come from ramping up risk and cost when weighing up who and whether to recruit. Formal dismissal process from day one would add to your risk and could cause real damage to the economy.
“Anyone looking at sky-high economic inactivity and not thinking about how small employers recruit is thinking about the problem in the wrong way.”
Rayner outlined their policies to the conference, she said, “A devolution revolution, a bill to deliver new rights and protections for renters. Planning reform to get Britain building, a landmark review to fix our NHS, a child poverty Task Force, 100 new specialist officers to tackle criminals, an end to one word Ofsted inspections.
Ending the ban on onshore wind and fines for bosses polluting our waters, bills to kickstart Great British Energy, and to prevent another Liz Truss disastrous mini-Budget, to put buses in local hands and bring rail into public ownership. Conference, change has begun.”
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