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Badenoch: Workers’ rights bill will destroy Christmas jobs
Kemi Badenoch warns the Employment Rights Bill could add £5 billion annually to business costs and reduce seasonal hiring by restricting zero-hours contracts and boosting union powers.
- On Monday, Conservative Party leader Kemi Badenoch will tell the CBI conference the Employment Rights Bill hands unions more power, calling it a return to 1970s-style industrial relations.
- Sir Tony Blair warned earlier this month that the plan risks harming jobs and hurting growth, joining critics who say the 330-page Employment Rights Bill was drafted in the Trades Union Congress headquarters.
- A university undergrad working 40 hours in December would have rights to the same hours in January–March, and critics say the `de facto ban` on zero-hours contracts could discourage `rational employers` from hiring seasonal staff.
- Adding to concern, the Government's impact assessment found the Bill would increase business costs, while Rain Newton-Smith and employer groups urged the UK Government to change course.
- With initial measures due in April next year, including day one paternity leave and statutory sick leave changes, ministers warn the UK risks a stop-start economy until further steps in 2027.
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Kyle Seeks to Reassure Business Over Workers’ Rights Concerns
Business Secretary Peter Kyle has hinted at concessions over the Government’s workers’ rights package to ensure it makes it through Parliament and does not damage firms. Mr Kyle said there would be extensive consultations about the measures in the Employment Rights Bill, insisting it was not a “zero sum” game where either workers or bosses lost out. The legislation is caught in a stand-off between peers and MPs over measures to ban “exploitative…
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Labour minister Peter Kyle issues new pledge on workers' rights ahead of Budget - The Mirror
The Employment Rights Bill has been one of the most hotly debated policies announced by Labour, and the task of implementing it has been handed to new Business Secretary Peter Kyle
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C 22%
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