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<div style="text-align: center;">IER Chair's Bill could abolish insecure work</div>
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IER Chair, Lord John Hendy QC, will launch a Bill on Wednesday (26 May 2021) that proposes to give all people in employment access to the same suite of rights.<br>
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Currently, workers fall into a complicated array of employment statuses which are attached to varying access to employment rights. Employers are known to exploit the lack of clarity over employment status to provide fewer rights to their workers - notably in the case of gig employers like Uber, which the Supreme Court recently found to be misclassifying workers as self-employed to avoid paying the Minimum Wage.<br>
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Even where an employer has not misclassified a worker, millions of people are still excluded from employment rights because they are considered a 'limb b' worker rather than an employee. These workers, such as those on zero-hour contracts or hired through an agency, can effectively be dismissed at will and have no access to protection in the case of redundancy, paid parental leave, or unfair dismissal. Often, they have no guaranteed salary so are left to struggle in the precarious situation of never knowing when - or if - they will be paid.<br>
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The Status of Workers Bill proposes a universal employment status for everyone except those who are demonstrably self-employed. This will put all people in employment on a level playing field, preventing employers from using an insecure workforce to undercut wages and rights, and giving workers the job security they need to fight for the terms and conditions they want.
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<div style="text-align: left;">The IER is proud to launch a programme of low-cost advertising to trade unions and the organisations that wish to reach them as a means of supporting our charitable aims.<br>
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For just £50, you can have your image in our newsletter, with a link to your website, campaign, event or service, and a coloured box of text - just like this - all about you.</div>
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<p style="margin: 10px 0;padding: 0;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #202020;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 16px;line-height: 150%;text-align: left;">IER Director, Carolyn Jones, considers the long-awaited - and now apparently forgotten - Employment Bill and what workers need from it.</p>
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