Toughen UK worker rights bill to curb ‘rogue employers’, MPs say

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The Party Committee, through the party, said on Monday that the UK government must emphasize its reforms on workers’ rights to ensure that “rogue employers” cannot use gaps in legislation.

The Commercial and Commercial Committee warned that the current package, because it leaves the main details that must be determined in the subsequent regulations, “undermines the certainty that the reforms aim to achieve them” and put Parliament “at the risk of signing an empty organizational examination.”

Specifically, the ministers had to be more evident in the law on how the ban on zero exploitation contracts worked, and to ensure that all employees qualify for new rights for normal working hours and compensation upon cancellation of transformations. He added that there should be more details about new rights for unions to organize.

The committee also called on the government to accelerate the reforms of the workers’ status-a measure that aims to prevent self-employment-which is not included in the draft law at the present time, and said that the clear plans are required to finance the new A fair work agency This will impose workers’ rights.

The ministers will publish amendments this week Employment rights bill Before the next stage of the parliamentary process.

Business groups have been severely pressured for changes to alleviate the impact of legislation – which includes a comprehensive set of reforms designed to give workers more security and increase the role of unions.

“We know that work is concerned about the high costs of employment,” said Liam Bernin, “But we also took evidence of the misuse of the workers who worsened us frankly.”

The committee said it took evidence from McDonald’s, as new demands for sexual misconduct have emerged In the workforce; Dozens of complaints received bad work practices from the transport companies at EVRI; I heard how the Frasers Group series of the previous promises to reduce its dependence on agency workers.

The committee’s call to follow a more strict approach with the requests of employers, who are concerned that their warnings of the possible costs of legislation – coming above imminent increases in taxes and the minimum wage – are located on deaf ears.

Government figures have already indicated that they plan to make some changes on the draft law to address practical concerns – for example, to ensure that senior employers did not have to consult workers constantly about repetition in different locations if they were not linked.

But the unions are increasingly confident that the essence of reforms – including the introduction of the protection of the first day against the non -fair separation, the census supposed to use “fire and rehabilitation” tactics to reduce work contracts, and to include agency workers in the ban on zero hour contracts – will remain sound.

The pressure groups urge the ministers to resist the invitation to set measures in more detail now.

Matthew Perseval, CBI’s work manager, said companies want to “avoid lock in detail. This can be determined better through an appropriate dialogue,” adding that “postponing these details to secondary legislation can create time to determine the settlements.”

“The government is time to speak and obtain things correctly” instead of moving forward in the pre -election deal with unions that were “short on details and the longer economic damage.”

Evry said he was “proud” by providing conditions for work in self -employment with “greater protection and advantages”, including pensions, holidays and pathological wages, adding that the partners have many ways to collect concerns, which will be investigated.

McDonald’s said it “has done intensively over the past year to ensure that driving practices in the industry are to support” Salama “, and that” any incident of misconduct and unacceptable harassment is undergoing investigation and rapid and comprehensive work. “

The Frasers group rejected the comment.

Additional reports by Anna Gross and Madeleine’s speed