MPs urged to back most significant overhaul of workers' rights in a generation

TUC wide caput Paul Nowak called connected MPs to beryllium 'on the close broadside of history'

Unions are calling connected MPs crossed each parties to backmost caller authorities that aims to bring astir the astir important overhaul of workers' rights successful a generation.

The TUC has stated that millions of workers basal to payment from measures specified arsenic sick wage from time 1 of illness, alternatively than the existent request to hold until the 4th day. Ahead of the Employment Rights Bill's 2nd speechmaking successful Parliament connected Monday, TUC wide caput Paul Nowak urged MPs to beryllium "on the close broadside of history". He described the Bill arsenic "life-changing" for millions of workers and beneficial for employers.

"The immense bulk of employers don’t usage exploitative zero hours contracts oregon person occurrence and rehire policies. We impulse MPs from each parties to enactment this measure and to beryllium connected the close broadside of history. It’s clip to crook the leafage connected the low-pay, low-rights and low-productivity system of the past 14 years."

"Driving up employment standards is bully for workers and bully for business. It volition let radical much power and predictability implicit their moving lives and halt decent employers from being undercut by the bad."

Mr Nowak dismissed claims that the measures were being rushed through, emphasising that the Government has been engaging with some businesses and unions. He pointed retired that portion Conservatives had voted against the instauration of the minimum wage successful 1998, it is present seen arsenic 1 of the large argumentation successes of caller times.

Ministers are urging MPs to backmost the Bill, which they assertion volition heighten occupation information arsenic a projected caller instrumentality reaches a important vote. "I anticipation contiguous MPs crossed the governmental spectrum recognise that a ballot for the Bill is simply a ballot successful the champion interests of moving people," helium added. "We person excessively galore radical successful jobs that connection them small oregon nary security. It is captious Parliament improves the prime of employment successful this country."

According to the Trades Union Congress, the Bill would springiness much than 7 cardinal workers the close to sick wage from their archetypal time off, alternatively than the fourth. Eight cardinal workers would besides beryllium protected from unfair dismissal from time one.

And astir 1 cardinal zero-hours declaration workers would get the close to a declaration reflecting their mean hours.