Proposed Employment Law Changes 2024
With a new LABOUR GOVERNMENT what does this mean for employment law?
Here are some of the changes Kier Starmer has proposed -
📍 Remove national minimum wage bands
📍 Make statutory sick pay available for all workers
📍 Make parental leave a right from day one
📍 Introduce the right to bereavement leave
📍 Make it a requirement for businesses with more than 250 staff to publish ethnicity and disability pay gap reports
📍 Enforce paid travel time in sectors with multiple working sites
📍 Create Fair Pay Agreements in adult social care
📍 PROPOSED CURTAILMENT OF ZERO HOURS CONTRACTS
Have you seen Labour's "PLAN TO MAKE WORK PAY"
In this (see pg 5) new rules are suggested to stop the abuse of what are considered to be "exploitative" zero hours contracts to end "one-sided flexibility".
✔ Instead, contracts that reflect regular hours worked based on the average hours over a 12 week period, would be provided. With workers given reasonable prior notice of required working hours and proportionate compensation for curtailment of cancellation of shifts at short notice.
It would still be possible to issue fixed term contracts and use these for seasonal work.
❗ Zero hours contracts were intended to replace "casual" contracts, where people were likely to be employed for just a few months - they were not intended to replace permanent contracts.
Now zero hours contracts are commonly used in the hospitality and care sectors, and where employers have not committed to providing a permanent contract.
Find out more about Labour's plans for the world of work in this document.
