Employment Rights Bill
The Employment Rights Bill (the first step in delivering the New Deal for Working People) is close to becoming law, but in the House of Lords, Conservative and Lib Dem peers are busy trying to unpick it.
They voted to water down some of the key protections in the Employment Rights Bill, smashing loopholes in our rights.
- Guaranteed hours for workers – they have turned a legal requirement for employers to offer guaranteed-hours contracts into a much weaker ‘right to request’.
- Compensation for cancelled shifts – letting employers off the hook for paying compensation for cancelled shifts if just two days’ notice is given.
- Scrapping the new day one right to protection from unfair dismissal.
The Deputy Prime Minister, Angela Rayner MP, rightly said, “Tory and Lib Dem peers, cheered on by Reform, are doing everything they can to block the biggest upgrade to workers’ rights in a generation. They want to undermine our new rights for millions of workers, and we won’t let them."
This Bill belongs to working people.
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