[IER] Govt faces strikes from low-paid workers on same day it announces 'Good Work Plan'

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IER News Brief 14/01/19

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Monday 14th January 2019

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The biggest development was the launch of the government's Good Work Plan - based on proposals included in the Taylor Review, the wide-ranging criticisms of which can be read here <https://ier.us12.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f121e48a8bb6d3101590c12d3&id=8c5c77d188&e=71131c031b> .

The Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) took forth 51 of Taylor's 53 recommendations - which sounds rather a lot until you read what they entail. The changes include repealing the Swedish Derogation (a legal loophole that allows agencies to pay temporary workers less than permanent ones); giving workers the right to a payslip; and allowing workers to request secure and stable work from their employer (though there is no right to receive it!).

As such, it has been widely attacked as tinkering around the edges without making any improvements that will actually help the UK's workers - one in ten of whom are in insecure work, and whose real wages have been stagnant for a decade.

As if to underline the distrust in the government's commitment to improving workers' lot, May's administration found itself faced with two strikes among the Whitehall workforce almost immediately after the Good Work Plan had been published.

Outsourced workers at BEIS and the Ministry of Justice will take industrial action over low wages and poor conditions, organised by PCS and the United Voices of the World unions respectively.

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	COMMENT: Outsourcing on the ‘never-never’ 
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