It’s now been almost a week since a new Labour government won a huge majority in the UK.
Before coming to power, the Labour Party published a plan named ‘Delivering a New Deal for Working People’. Within it they promise to introduce legislation in Parliament within 100 days of entering government.
The new government are looking to make a lot of changes to the working world and employment.
These are the key areas that they are looking to alter:
- Remove the age bands on the minimum wage to ensure every adult worker benefits.
- Make flexible working the default from day one for all workers except for where it is not reasonably practicable.
- Strengthen trade union rights.
- End zero-hour contracts.
- End ‘fire and rehire’ (the practice of an employer making an employee redundant and then re-engaging them on reduced terms and conditions).
- Move towards a single status of worker.
- Strengthen protection of whistleblowers.
- Strengthen redundancy rights and protections.
- Ensure parental leave is a day one right.
- Bring in the ‘right to switch off’ to unblur the lines between work and home life.
- Unpaid internships will be banned apart from when they are part of an education or training course.
- Remove the lower earnings limit on statutory sick pay to make it available to all workers and remove the waiting period.
- Gender pay gap reporting will need to include outsourced workers.
- The publication of ethnicity and disability pay gaps will also be made mandatory for employers with more than 250 staff, mirroring that of gender pay gap reporting.
- Large employers with more than 250 employees will need to produce Menopause Action Plans outlining how they will support employees through the menopause.
- Workers to be able to collectively raise a grievance via ACAS.
If you would like to discuss any of the forthcoming changes and/or any concerns you may have for you and your business, please do drop us an email at hello@taurushr.co.uk
or call us on 0330 043 0897 for a friendly chat.
