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Paul Nowak, general secretary of the TUC speaking at the TUC congress at the ACC Liverpool, September 11, 2023
UNIONS are urging MPs of all parties to support new legislation aimed at the biggest overhaul of workers’ rights in a generation.
Ahead of the second reading of the Employment Rights Bill in Parliament today, the TUC said millions of workers would benefit from measures including sick pay from the first day of illness rather than having to wait until the fourth day.
TUC general secretary Paul Nowak called on MPs to be “on the right side of history.”
Employment lawyer ALICE BOWMAN warns ‘day one rights’ include an undefined ‘initial period’ and the zero-hours contract fixes create baffling fixed-term loopholes. If the Bill doesn’t work properly and deliver, Labour is doomed
Labour’s watered-down legislation won’t protect us from unfair dismissal or ban some zero-hours contracts until 2027 — leaving millions of young people vulnerable to the populist right’s appeal, warns TUC young workers chair FRASER MCGUIRE
Labour must not allow unelected members of the upper house to erode a single provision of the Employment Rights Bill, argues ANDY MCDONALD MP