[IER] Row rumbles on as business leaders line up against a ‘full fat’ New Deal for workers

Fri Feb 23 16:09:17 GMT 2024

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Row rumbles on as business leaders line up against a ‘full fat’ New Deal for workers

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A row over Labour’s planned ‘New Deal for Working People’ has unfolded in the pages of The Times, as business leaders have expressed concerns about the possibility of a ‘full fat’ employment rights packaged being presented to Parliament in the first 100 days of an incoming Labour government.

A number of business leaders have warned the party that a comprehensive package of reforms, which would include the scrapping of anti-strike legislation, banning of zero hours contracts, basic rights from day one, the introduction of sectoral collective bargaining and increased acces to workplaces, could undermine economic recovery and place “uneccesary burdens” on business.

 <https://www.ier.org.uk/news/row-rumbles-on-as-business-leaders-line-up-against-a-full-fat-new-deal-for-workers/> More details 

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Labour should ignore corporate scaremongering over workers’ rights

The business lobby was wrong over the minimum wage and is wrong over the New Deal for Working People, says the TUC's Paul Nowak.  

 <https://www.newstatesman.com/comment/2024/02/labour-should-ignore-corporate-scaremongering-over-workers-rights> More details 

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Government issue draft code of practice on dismissal and re-engagement

Business Minister Kevin Hollinrake said: "This announcement shows we are taking action to tackle fire and re-hire practices by balancing protections for workers with business flexibility". Unions, however, were more sceptical about the proposed changes.  

 <https://www.ier.org.uk/news/government-issue-draft-code-of-practice-on-dismissal-and-re-engagement/> More details 

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Royal Parks workers bring landmark case over race and equal pay

A group of toilet cleaners & attendants working for the Royal Parks could be about to make legal history in the Court of Appeal, arguing that their outsourced contracts amount to indirect race discrimination. Landmark case brought by UVW union. 

 <https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/feb/20/royal-parks-workers-bring-landmark-case-over-race-and-equal-pay-london> More details 

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How we get rid of the Tories’ anti-union legislation?

This is an opportunity for us to build a mass movement of trades unions, campaign groups and community activists to target employers, directly elected mayors and political leaders to not comply with this legislation and build pressure on any future Government to repeal this and all other anti-union laws of the last forty years, argues Sarah Woolley, general secretary of BFAWU.

 <https://www.ier.org.uk/comments/how-we-get-rid-of-the-tories-anti-union-legislation/> Read here 

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Minimum Service Levels not needed for nuclear, says Government

The Department for Energy Security & Net Zero has no current plans for minimum service levels regulations in the nuclear sector 

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Colleges’ vindictive threat against lecturers is a clear anti-trade union assault

The actions of Scotland’s colleges are reprehensible, and are drawn straight from the anti-trade union playbook, say EIS

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Devolution of employment legislation: new approaches

The Jimmy Reid Foundation has recently published a paper, 'Devolving Employment Legislation', which sets out a detailed policy for the devolution of employment-related law to Scotland. Dave Watson, Director of the organisation, explains. 

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Wales TUC welcomes ministerial statement supporting trade unions in Wales

Trade unions in Wales have welcomed the Welsh government’s continued commitment to working with the movement. Via the Morning Star.

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Europe’s bid to boost gig workers’ rights fails again

Europe's attempt to give workers at Uber & Deliveroo and other online platforms more social and labour rights falls as France abstains 

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The Right to Strike, Minimum Service Levels, and European Values

Alan Bogg of the University of Bristol assesses the current legal status of the British right to strike from the perspective of European comparators.

 <https://etuclex.etuc.org/working-paper-right-strike-minimum-service-levels-and-european-values> Access the paper here 

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Still places on our Case Law Update event in Manchester

An event aimed at exploring the relationship between labour law and the workplace. There are still a few places left at our Manchester event on the 29th February - but be quick. 

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