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The Employment Rights Bill – The Right to Guaranteed Hours
The right to guaranteed hours is the mechanism the Government has chosen to ‘ban’ zero hours contracts. It takes up 11 densely worded pages in the Employment Rights Bill inserting a new Chapter into Part 2A of the Employment Rights … Continue reading
The Employment Rights Bill – Unfair Dismissal as a Day-One Right.
One of the features of the Employment Rights Bill that has attracted particular attention is the abolition of the qualifying period for unfair dismissal making it a day-one right (see Schedule 2 of the Bill). This is something that a … Continue reading
Fire and Rehire under the Employment Rights Bill
There is a lot to say about the Employment Rights Bill which was introduced in Parliament earlier today. In many ways it really is transformative – its also long and detailed. My plan is not to write one big summary of … Continue reading
Labour’s new right to a four-day week
So a story seems to have exploded over the the course of the day that the Government is going to give workers the right to work a compressed four-day week. They aren’t. But they might be about to strengthen a … Continue reading
Should the BBC have sacked Huw Edwards before he resigned?
Was the BBC wrong to keep Huw Edwards employed despite knowing that he had been arrested on such serious charges? Looking at the timeline I think it’s difficult to criticise their approach. Most large public sector organisations would have done … Continue reading
The Future of Agency Workers
Labour’s manifesto promised that the new Government will introduce legislation on employment law within 100 days. I’m not sure if the clock is ticking yet. Did they mean 100 days from the election or 100 days from the King’s Speech on … Continue reading
Labour’s Plans for Employment Law – Other Stuff
I’ve now written three posts setting out Labour’s plans for employment law set out in its document “Labour’s Plans to Make Work Pay”. I’ve looked at trade union law, individual employment rights and equality and family-related issues. Ahead of the … Continue reading
Labour’s Plans for Equality Law
Labour’s policy document published at the beginning of the election campaign – “Labour’s Plan to Make Work Pay” – has so much detail in it that I have already written about it in two posts. The first looked at trade union … Continue reading
