Within 100 days you will know more!
Within the next 100 days you will know more about planned changes for your place of work!
That’s the promise of the new UK Government elected on July 4th.
In 100 days, they say they will:-
·???????? Introduce a New Employment Rights Bill
It will:-
·???????? Ban exploitative zero-hour contracts ensuring workers have a right to a contract that reflects the number of hours they regularly work and that all workers get reasonable notice of any changes in shift with proportionate compensation for any shifts cancelled or curtailed.
·???????? End ‘Fire and Rehire’ and ‘Fire and Replace’ ?practices by changing the law to provide effective remedies and replacing the previous statutory code.
·???????? Make parental leave, sick pay and protection from unfair dismissal available from day 1 on the job for all workers.
·???????? Continue to ensure employers can operate probationary periods to assess new hires.
·???????? Strengthen Statutory Sick Pay by removing the lower earnings limit to make it available to all workers as well as the waiting period.
·???????? Make flexible working the default from day-one for all workers, with employers required to accommodate this as far as is reasonable, to reflect the modern workplace.
·???????? Strengthen protections for new mothers by making it unlawful to dismiss a woman who has had a baby for six months after her return to work, except in specific circumstances.
·???????? Establish ?a new Single Enforcement Body, also known as a Fair Work Agency, to strengthen enforcement of workplace rights.
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·???????? ?Set up a Fair Pay Agreement in the adult social care sector and, following review, assess how and to what extent such agreements could benefit other sectors.
·???????? Simplify the process of statutory trade union recognition and introduce a regulated route to ensure workers and union members have a reasonable right to access a union within workplaces.
?Other New Laws in the Pipeline
Other Laws that will be coming include those listed below. Get in touch for more information about any of these listed. Our training courses and policy consultations with breaking news will continue to update participants and clients! Get in touch for details.
There will in summary be new laws and/or agencies on:-?
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And more initiatives to develop a closer working relationship at all levels with the European Union post Brexit
Summer 2024.
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