New worker rights laws bring parental leave and sick pay reform

[@jeanwood6392]

“ Could take 2 years to implement “. If the change was for the betterment of the MPs it would be passed the same day.

[@samiapassos9659]

Exactly!

[@danjames4086]

Whilst I agree that MP's are far too quick to feather their own nests, it's not really a fair comparison. I hate to defend them, but changing conditions for a few hundred MPs is way simpler than doing the same for millions of employees across the whole of society.

[@AI-Records24]

@@danjames4086how is it though? You just say these are the rules now and that’s that. How does everything take so long in this country the ussr did things instantaneously fgs😅

[@swordfish2326]

Zero hours should never have been allowed in the first place

[@quillo2747]

Why? I have worked on a zero hour contract, it worked for me at the time. Not having to go to work 9 to 5 but pick up the odd shift where avaliable. If someone doesn't want to work zero hours then go get a 9 to 5 salaried job. All the government achieves is removing the option for flexible working.

[@bonditltd5346]

@@quillo2747It’s not good for renters as they can’t prove constant employment. The same for a loan

[@danielhornby5581]

@@quillo2747the choice should be offered. If you want zero hours, great. If not, you get an actual contract.

[@teamev1976]

@@bonditltd5346but it suits some people. We have had employees asking for zero hours contract. Providing flexibility is good.

[@bonditltd5346]

@@teamev1976 I suppose if they live at home, don’t need to borrow, it can be good. But for the vast majority, zero hours means financial insecurity

[@emmabrooker166]

Govt must explain to people that we used to have these rights - until Thatcherism and beyond removed them bit by bit. This isn’t creating something brand new and scary.

[@dutchymaze6315]

Hehehe, you sound really brit, dense. The bill is not created but reinstated and it is a very good thing for every one

[@stigmontgomery7901]

@@dutchymaze6315 Except if you run a business of course.......

[@MrDunkycraig]

Yes so by your thinking going back to the 60/70s industrial mayhem is a good idea? Its nonsense flexible working is nonsense the person paying your wage tells you where and when to work end of. If the civil service response times are anything to go by they all need to be in the office. What took 8 weeks now takes 8 months and counting to get a response! Im against zero hours contracts but there needs to be a balance to allow employers to terminate poor standard staff

[@Carlin2810]

@@stigmontgomery7901 You dont have the right to take advantage of despeate people just so you can have a business.

[@roseanncampbell3168]

​@@Carlin2810 exactly were not in the Victorian and previous eras where employers abused their staff with impunity

[@masumiam]

Exploitation of worker must be stopped full stop.

[@truthseeker8072]

What do you think employment is? To be employed means to be exploited. It doesn’t matter how nice the owner of the business, you’re still being exploited to build another man’s dream. Which is the definition of modern slavery according to the ONS.

[@quillo2747]

The work you do is optional. Don't like the work, go do something else. Don't want to exchange your time and labour for a guaranteed wage? Start your own business.

[@danielhornby5581]

@@quillo2747That’s all well and good but we both know that you can’t have everyone starting up their own business. It wouldn’t be possible. Banks wouldn’t have enough liquidity to offer loans to the majority of the population for a start. Most people would be immediately stopped on that basis. Even if that was achieved, who would then do the roles we need that are unskilled?

[@pinxtownington4645]

But if you have to pay 20% more on your wages which haven't changed in five years that what?

[@kieranb7747]

"exploitation of works must be stopped full stop" there's always a half assed marxist in the comments when it comes to these issues.

[@scottycrayon]

9 months is better than 2 years. Sick of these abusive companies rigging the system and treating staff like trash.

[@lancethrust9488]

USED TO BE 6 MONTHS AROUND 2002

[@JugglinJellyTake01]

You take a job those rights should be yours from day one that holds the shysters to account instead of laying them off before their trial period is up.

[@AnthonyD-yy2in]

@@JugglinJellyTake01 Nailed it! 👍

[@jabbadabbajew6035]

TBF though most of you are shite.

[@spookylittlebat]

Sure, but why 9 months? It’s a sus number. Could it be to prevent maternity pay for women who are already pregnant or become pregnant around the time of starting the job? 🤔

[@catherinewestmcgrathwords]

It makes good economic sense. When people feel secure in work they have confidence to spend. Financial institutions have more confidence to lend knowing borrowers will be employed. Too many employers have advertised jobs never intending them to be permanent just to deliver a short term project. Now they'll have to be more honest about the contract. Job insecurity hasn't done our economy any favours.

[@wulfhere83]

Labour do, on occasion, come up with good ideas. This is one of them.

[@MeiinUK]

A good KZbin video about tourism.. it said that last year, around 3 billion overnight stays in Europe last year. Remind me... Why are such deep precarious working is happening?..... Can we keep 800 million precarious workers ?.... We don't have this at all. And these so called private companies are nonsense ? Cos people are over drugging. Over excess... And it is causing financial crashes.

[@Skygrey2943]

​@MeiinUK Working class people receiving better pay and conditions has never caused a financial crash. 2008 was caused by greed of financiers, dergulation, excessive risk taking, and the sub prime market market collapsing. Also people getting high saved the 2008 crash from being as bad as it could have been because of the liquidity of drug money.

[@14Anon2]

It's amazing that anyone can talk about labour rights and job security, whilst simultaneously defending the idea of masses of people being brought in to dilute the labour pool (which big business also advocates for). You people are not serious about tackling the underlying causes of these issues or about listening to what the working class actually wants.

[@MeiinUK]

@@Skygrey2943 : The financial crash is caused by the migration of people and using credit cards too, and some of those actions caused the situation to liquidate the reserve pool. So many infracture lending between countries that were setup before... ended up forcing or indirectly forcing... situations to occur like, absolute freedom of movements? So... today, when you see the media, why is social media now exists in the world? Should it be as so, and BE as such? The answer is a good "no". We now have no manual control of the internet. We have no control over the AI. We have lost ALL controls as well... kzbin.info/www/bejne/pojNo2OanLKkmZI

[@danielhornby5581]

Can this 9 month probation be applied to MPs too? I bet it can’t!

[@kingayman5225]

3:26 “headlines are scary” as a small business owner I don’t see how this negatively effects me? I don’t exploit the people who work for me, and rely on my business for their families income. These headlines are not negative for a fair business that treats its employees right. The ones it discourages are those with selfish or ill intent. When workers rights came in the early 20th century, I am sure a lot of workhouses and coal mines were angry 😂

[@DarrenSmith-tq2xz]

You are going to see small business disappear this is to make the bigs get bigger

[@kingayman5225]

@@DarrenSmith-tq2xz sorry but i disagree. Unless you’re someone who treats employees like disposable seasonal workers. You’re not affected! My business consults small businesses, and I can assure you, it’s only those with selfish or ill intent who are affected.

[@danjames4086]

It's goid to hear a business owner with ethics. Besides, it's good economic sense too. Stability and prospects mean people will spend more. They are also more likely to secure loans, mortgages etc. People with mortgages tend to be reliable because they have social responsibilities. As you suggest, only those who are exploiting workers need worry.

[@paulberry6926]

It’s the danger of unforeseen consequences. I don’t do zero hours, I’m well above minimum pay levels, I use an outsourced HR company… and yet we still have an horrendous admin with those that would “play the game” … admittedly, much of this applied during the Tories.

[@AI-Records24]

Exactly. I already do way better than the law and mine are thriving. I’ve built up a workforce that are reliable, hardworking and loyal. I pay nearly double minimum as *starting*, I pay full wage sick, with benefits on top. It’s not a good business if you rely on taking advantage of others, and you deserve to fail.

[@GillianNicoleLilah]

legalrightsguru AI fixes this (AI Consumer Rights Memos). New laws: parental leave reform.

[@shoelessjoe428]

Let's stop hating those who fight for better working conditions. Then maybe we can start getting somewhere.

[@DarrenSmith-tq2xz]

This is going to kill small businesses and it is only going to allow coperatetions get bigger than they already are Google. How many politicians have set up and ran a business

[@benjaminollis]

If you mean starmer, then NO

[@shoelessjoe428]

@@benjaminollis I mean teachers, doctors, train drivers, nurses, airline staff, unions.

[@leehenry5764]

How's it better? They will just get rid of people before the 9 month period. And employers can refuse flexible hours.

[@DarrenSmith-tq2xz]

@@leehenry5764 I'm not interested in this garbage Im leaving the country soon so what happens now is no interest of mine anymore stay safe and well God bless you and your family

[@RyanJ_]

Business owners angry that they have to treat their employees fairly

[@AI-Records24]

Not me, I already do way better than the law and mine are thriving. So don’t tar us all with the same brush, we aren’t all Amazon or JD.

[@PythonesqueSpam]

That treating employees fairly and needing legislation put in place to do so, is described as a threat, shows those doing so are corrupt and too immoral to have a business. If they had their way, they'd have children up chimneys quicker than you can say "Tories pushed a third of UK children into poverty".

[@Wallrod]

If a small business owner is scared by this, it's because they can't - or don't want to - employ people fairly. Good indicator they should find something else to do.

[@FigthAGAINSTSCOIALISM]

Complete bs. You seem to think small businesses are making loads of money. And can afford to pay you to NOT work. NOT working = no money. No money means NO pay.

[@AI-Records24]

@@FigthAGAINSTSCOIALISMnah I have multiple businesses, all 3 started small and yet none relied on taking advantage of someone else. I’d never advertise anything at minimum wage or zero hours and I pay full wage for sick anyway. Guess what? It’s never hurt the companies and has helped me build up a strong work force that are loyal and hardworking.

[@colinm4]

​@@AI-Records24 I thank goodness I work with the council. I've been off sick 9 months out last 20 through no fault of my own. The private sector need more like you

[@AI-Records24]

@@colinm4 it happens, any business should be able to support that, employ someone else if only 1 employee and if they can’t then they need to be on their own. I worked for a few builders and contractors when I was young and decided then and there if I was going to open a business I’d be nothing like them. Working 12 hours a day for 160 at 16, take a day off and threatened with the sack if it went into 2.

[@stigmontgomery7901]

Says the person who's never run a business in their life!

[@benmarron2545]

as a young person it is very hard to even get to the 2 year point in a job they either fire you or do their best to make you want to quit

[@stigmontgomery7901]

Maybe because you suck at your job?

[@MeiinUK]

I have lost two jobs to networks within my Facebook group. Then another network from uni days sent an advertising spam and attacked me. I knew it. It was a security breach. And then the media sectors people did their dues. That was never advertised. Those people are still in positions of powers. Insurance companies are not doing well. Criminal issues are being put forward and yet somebody paid the low income people deliberately to provoke them to steal and they walked right into that trap to steal things. The media gets all the adverts and the pay. The insurance executives get a high pay. It secures more infrastructure spending....

[@RogerMellie-yk3gw]

They won't fire you if you're good at your job

[@moomin7461]

​@@RogerMellie-yk3gwIt happens all the time, I'm afraid.

[@RogerMellie-yk3gw]

@@moomin7461 why would they fire someone who was good at their job?

[@tonytheantony]

Freedom of movement, Minimum wage and zero hour contracts have flushed employees right down the toilet.

[@JugglinJellyTake01]

Abolish zero hour contracts. Increase top rate of income tax to 60%. Raise minimum wage to £15 per hour immediately. Raise universal credit. Roll back higher than inflation rent increases to pre covid. Nationalise energy companies decrease rate in line with inflation. Include standing charges in unit rates for gas and electric. A rise in standing charge from £120 per year dual fuel to £400 is a massive tax on the poor and low users.

[@humptydumphty]

You think lord Ali s puppets will do these changes 😅

[@cyberlunatics5195]

Your insane 🤣🤣

[@radroatch]

@@cyberlunatics5195 Those are all pretty milk-toast when compared with either UK recent history and/or other developed European countries

[@JugglinJellyTake01]

@cyberlunatics5195 Right and your either a sock puppet or happy to be walked over either way your comment is irrelevant.

[@nerd_abroad]

A whole lot of SMEs will stop hiring if minimum wage were to rise that high.

[@sultanhaider1176]

There are record numbers of jobs available the trouble is most of them just around pay as much as ones universal credit entitlement without the job.

[@admorris3898]

The trouble is, the minimum wage is so low and the cost of living so high, that people can't afford to take those "record number" jobs. Combined with predatory employment conditions and eroded workers rights i.e. zero hour contracts and dismissal for "poor performance" in the first two years etc The people reliant on the system aren't incentivized to take them, due to the risk of losing their homes and income support for a precarious poverty wage job that could evaporate at any second. Whilst people who are between jobs, can't take them because they wouldn't be able to keep paying their mortgages and eat. It's easy to just label it as "All benefit claimants are lazy and don't want to work" but there are much larger systemic issues at play. Which these policies are actually attempting to address in part

[@sultanhaider1176]

@@admorris3898 you won’t find me in disagreement. Thats exactly what I mean. The minimum pay isn’t enough to survive in this day and age.

[@vickywilliams8320]

Whoever thought that was a sensible idea, never thought that s killed wages would go down. But they did. Its pegged wages low. Shifty innit.

[@cloudyskies1323]

@@admorris3898well it is work. It is expected to make you sweat, under pressure or feel tired by end of working time. No business wants slackers. Conditions are still in favour of the employee. Amazon likely is the exception.

[@senanur1983]

When are we making 4 day work week a LAW? Unless it is law these corporate leeches will never bring it.

[@stigmontgomery7901]

And once we have the 4 day week then introduce a 3 day week, then a 2 day..................................

[@Roundhead75]

Lazy people want to work 4 days a week , have you thought about things like the construction industry? Labour want to build millions of new homes in a short amount of time yet you want to cut the amount of days workers can work to build those new homes lol , everything the left do is a joke. It already takes 5+ years to build tower blocks , how long would it take after a 4 day week?????

[@leehenry5764]

We don't want it as law, we will all have to work 10-12 hours aday. I'm happy working 8 hours aday, 5 days aweek

[@davidmcculloch8490]

Responsible businesses will be responsible employers, looking after their employees. Greedy profiteers will exploit employees.

[@DarylSolis]

4 things the UK gov wants us to do. 1. Work in the UK 2. Pay tax in the UK 3. Consume in the UK 4. Die before you get state pension DON'T DO IT

[@blueamenaa749]

The truth. Same in France.

[@RogerMellie-yk3gw]

I will do it. I like all of those things. They aren't negatives.

[@johnmunro4952]

If you work your entire life but are still expecting to rely on the state pension then you've wasted your life. Maybe you should have paid more attention and worked harder during your 10 years of free compulsory education. Stop blaming others and take responsibility for your own life.

[@danjames4086]

What's wrong with the first three? Or do you like the idea that about £35 billion goes missing from the UK every year through offshore tax evasion?

[@anthonypert574]

Clear off then bye

[@BoshyG]

If labour actually cared and didnt just want to "look good" theyd implement it significantly faster but 2 years, yeah pull the other leg whilst youre at it.

[@TheJon2442]

Perhaps if the politicians stop the invasion of cheap illegal labour! Workers rights would be more respected!!!!

[@humptydumphty]

Even Tory couldnt do this damage to workers 😅 3 months probation period incread to 9 month you dont know if employer could say you met requirements or not

[@m0n0chr0m3s]

Not sure you understand this properly, currently its 2 years before you gain full employment rights. So 9 months is definitely an improvement, the question is where they will set that line, it was day 1, than 6 months and now 9 months.

[@etaokha4164]

Talk talk talk no action. On their application form they ask for english speakers but half of the people applying are immigrants and non english speakers and English speakers dont want to do the job because the pay is too low. Its all mixed up and lots of confusion and if you noticed not a single young person in their 20s on that line. Increase the pay and allow people to have sick leave and pay them . Again that also why the younger generation are staying child free because who in these day and age can afford to feed an extra mouth on minimum wage??? All our tax money has gone to Ukraine war and Palestine war thats where our money went and nothing for us the british citizens and the government want people to keep working till they drop because the government lack empathy towards its own people.

[@PythonesqueSpam]

Literally not a single point you made in your tirade is factually correct... you're not a supporter of Comrade Trump are you? 🤣

[@Carlin2810]

@@PythonesqueSpam Oh look a xenophobic neocon warhawk in the wild. You lot are a rare breed these days.

[@PythonesqueSpam]

@@jigglchoo8858 Oh dear... that's rolling on the floor laughing... and to suggest that rambling generalisation is how working class think is just insulting.. people aren't that stoopid!

[@leehenry5764]

​@@PythonesqueSpamFind a cure for you're TDS

[@PythonesqueSpam]

@@leehenry5764 Carry on bleating!

[@cloudyskies1323]

Flexible working will only apply to admin based jobs. Imagine an oil rig worker saying I don’t work anymore than 2 days in a row and need to go home. In a role where constancy makes the difference to customer outcomes such as homecare, care homes and hospices. A contracted job with a 36 hour deadline and is so specialised that only 1 person can supervise it within 200 miles.

[@Roundhead75]

Exactly, it's only for office bods

[@svetlanak7766]

Education too!

[@kidycello7108]

the deputy PM did not fully check behind her while reversing on the pallet truck, this is very reckles and she should have to re-sit her PPT test.

[@rajivnskii720]

20k start taxing like farage said

[@tomnewton8957]

Welcome to an increase in unemployment.

[@zuzannanowicka6348]

If she's responsible for the Job Centres and the so-called 'work coaches', then she's clearly doing a terrible job

[@shatbad2960]

Why do we assume smaller businesses can afford to pay thousands in sick pay? The government should fund it out of the billions they waste on: foreign aid, unproductive migrants, carbon capture nonsense.

[@bw9927]

39% CT is insane. What’s the point in growing a business if you get taxed 39% on the profits. Labour will kill this country

[@itoastpotatoes399]

You get more money? As long as the tax isn't 100% growing business=more money. What a stupid thing to say.

[@bw9927]

@@itoastpotatoes399 I don’t think you know what you are even saying 🤡

[@viewme1234]

Headlines scary, chilling... Give me a break. Treat your employee well and they will work hard for you, if they don't do their job you're legally allowed to get rid, simple.

[@IDontCare2DoYou]

Why should I have a right to flexible working? Why should I have a right to parental leave? Where does the value for this come? Is it other workers?

[@jn4126]

So before where they could say "your out, no explanation" now they can say "your out, you failed probation" Yay?

[@leafykille]

You can't have policy that is both pro business and pro workers. Their desires are mutually exclusive. It is not possible to pay workers more and less at the same time. It is also impossible to give people job security while also making it easier to for business to fire people. Every issue is the same, if it's good for workers it's bad for business and vice versa.

[@FigthAGAINSTSCOIALISM]

Yeah you can have a system that is good for both. We had that in the 19th century it was called capitalism. Today we have a socialist mixed economy that is not capitalism and only benefits the political parties. The feature of command economies they are controlled by the state. The state has power to create monopolies. Thus corruption and bribery are used to get the most power. The ones who suffer the most is private businesses and regular working people. They will not be able to find jobs.

[@admorris3898]

They're not mutually exclusive. There are many successful businesses and business models where it's a symbiotic relationship. The current zeitgeist promotes pernicious neoliberal ideology and the profits of shareholder capitalism above all else though. So greed and zero-sum thinking such as this has become endemic

[@shedlife1783]

This country is being run by school kids. We need a more productive workforce.

[@anthonypert574]

Year 14 years of whinging kids good riddance

[@Roundhead75]

​@@anthonypert574the kids have left but the toddlers have taken over, it's even worse .

[@anthonypert574]

What about agency workers rights

[@justsomegeezer69]

So, to be clear, the objections are "the headlines sound scary"? That's it?

[@samiapassos9659]

As always, the interest of businesses comes first. Stop exploiting working class.

[@antispindr8613]

Have you listened to the Burning Sky by The Jam? Some pretty telling lyrics!

[@tonyr4873]

Without businesses, there would be no work for the working class. It isn't exploitation, it's symbiosis.

[@sugarfree1894]

However chilling it is, if small businesses want to grow they need staff. Staff are people to be respected. I wish there was some insurance sick pay for the self employed - maybe there is and I don't know about it?

[@fionadixon4u]

Yes there is. Google it as there are several providers.

[@m0n0chr0m3s]

Yes those do exist, I believe they are called income protection insurance.

[@Roundhead75]

​@@m0n0chr0m3sthat we have to pay for even though we pay NI

[@michaelkealy2822]

Finally Angela in a job she will be be able to manage in a few months/ years

[@JamesPhillipsOfficial]

If i was an employer, everyone is on a 10 year probation, and it means I never have to fully commit to hiring. On year 9 and the 364th day, they are sacked for arbitrary reasons, then i send an email with laughing emoji's 😂

[@cazrealist1]

End zero hr contracts , but as for those other proposed policies, they will criple middle and small businesses, leading to fewer jobs less growth, more austerity bunch of clowns creating Idiocracy

[@Pinkicelolly0]

Well i be writing a angry letter to their gov after address their cuts in service and i hitting back in over why for 4 year i been Unable to get work not hard their nothing available a letter be coming to the pm over why nothing being done about it shame on you pm

[@SI-vb7hd]

An improvement but still tinkering round the edges with a lot of holes and gaps for companies to exploit. The biggest change in a generation? Maybe but that says more about the lack of change than the scale of this one. Overselling and underdelivering.

[@LuciaGuarino-z2p]

What a load of blurb she talks what she wants us to hear do they think this will make us like them no too little too late and it’s only a few months in.

[@MidnightRambler]

Insane Labour party bs. Businesses will slow down hiring and the economy will suffer

[@DarrenSmith-tq2xz]

This is only going to get mutch worse than anyone can emagine we are loosing the brightest people in the UK they are going to to be leaving in there droves

[@danjames4086]

Meanwhile we are stuck with those who can't spell 'much', 'imagine' and 'losing' correctly. And it's 'their', not 'there'. I'll give you the benefit of the doubt...you might have dysexia. But come on...you've obviously got an electronic device in your hand. You could have checked the spelling. It rather undermines your credibility to be talking about a brain drain from the UK.😂

[@DarrenSmith-tq2xz]

@@danjames4086 I see things that are going to blow people's minds I'm going to tell you that we are going to see 2008 on steroids in the coming months I'm going to stop worning people and get on with looking after my own family you won't be hearing me worn enyone on things that I find out keep following the heard I won't even say I told you so eather I hope you and your family stay safe and well in the future

[@CraigMcGill-u2o]

Its usually a 3 month trial for the normal working person , even agency workers have the same rights as an employee of a company after 3 months , you start paying into a pension scheme also.

[@cloudyskies1323]

Appears to be confusion around the 2 year probation. Well it’s not. The probation period is usually 6 months, some are 3 and some are 1 year. The 2 year anniversary is when many companies offer the full employee benefits, redundancy pay, full sick pay and maybe other benefits. This was always to incentivise staff to commit for longer than just having to recruit the post again and after the time and money getting you to the level required.

[@Von1966]

What about SSP being paid 1 month in arrears?

[@AcidOllie]

I wonder if Martin McTague is a Tory? If the headlines are going to be worrying just tell all the small businesses to stop reading the Daily Mail. Problem solved.

[@reamoinmcdonachadh9519]

Typical, once in power things get watered down from a previous stance of righteous anger and indignation about "putting things right". I get that business have their concerns, but surely even the smallest business want's to see the back of unfair and exploitative practices?? And a lead time of two years to implement whatever survives the legislative process? The next election will be just around the corner!!

[@Alexander-yb1zc]

Of course not they would do anything to keep costs down to increase profits/payout shareholders. Look at Thames water, they had the dream a regional monopoly of millions of trapper consumers and all they had to do was the bare minimum of investment to keep away the government and they could of Sat back and watch the money pour in. But instead they hiked prices paid out the shareholders and bonuses to themselves and will now likely be renationalised.

[@m0n0chr0m3s]

Day 1 seems extreme, 6 months is great balance, 9 months seems to be pushing on too long. If a company needs 9 months to decide if someone is suitable for the job they are not serious. We should do it based on income, anyone earning under 40k, 6 months. For high earners that may require longer time to yield results we could say 1 year or so.

[@ubaldobezoari8652]

And this will kill off thousands of jobs, as companies cannot afford these increased costs. The ones that can afford the increased costs eill pass them onto us by raising prices. So we end up paying for this nonsense once more.

[@SianNadine]

Yes they can when companies are getting record profits but prices keep going up they can afford it

[@tonyr4873]

@@SianNadine Not all companies are making record profits. This could finish some of them off, especially smaller ones.

[@ste-mu2hx]

People like zero hours for flexibility, plus the more they double down the more actually ruins small business will be less employment

[@ianjones9498]

that is bull

[@ste-mu2hx]

@@ianjones9498 a bull is a verile animal, that us bull.. This is a comment.. Mr joooones

[@ste-mu2hx]

@@ianjones9498 so no small medium business at the conferences last week had any... Issue wat so ever with these regs... Fir stated reason.. Yes they did, stop your yidda yadda

[@JamesPhillipsOfficial]

I think this is a good thing. Plenty of companies want their monthly subscriptions but wont hire people for more than a day. Whats wrong about wanting financial stability as an employee. And they set stupid targets that are too high like warehouses want order picker to run down aisles, pick and process items onto a pallet every 20 seconds, demonstrating high staff turnover because virtually no one is capable of doing that On the flipside, businesses are not going to be incentivized to hire if workers have rights, hiring will stall. They have to be able to remove dead weight, or just have longer probation periods I see a rise in Job Agencies which outsources the liability to an agency, rising People will not be on the books for the next 4.9 years, this is a olive leaf for agencies

[@FigthAGAINSTSCOIALISM]

The reason, for the high turnover is so many people are looking for a job. This is why you don't let millions immigrate to your country within a year. Supply and demand. Very little demand but a high amount of supply. Add to that the minimum wage and high taxes for businesses in the UK. It makes it harder for a business to turn a profit.

[@JohnCox-ut3cv]

This is gonna eat in to business profits. What will happen to these companies? Will they go bust?Will they survive? Will they relocate overseas? Will they reduce the number of people seen as living in poverty?

[@siphotheguy1870]

When you're white collar and secure in your career you assume everyone gets this.

[@jellybean6582]

I had to take unpaid leave to sit with my dying father and support my mother in the days following

[@anthonyf7821]

5 more years of this debacle 🤦🏼‍♂️

[@scottycrayon]

2 years

[@V4Now]

Compared to the previous fourteen years, this is barely a concern.

[@CarlBland-l8l]

A the next lot will be worse

[@beckiebeckiebeck]

5 more years of strengthening worker’s rights? I hope so.

[@adamstanford2549]

​@@beckiebeckiebeckThe right to do as little as possible. That does not get economic growth

[@eileentarrant9876]

How is that bringing money in to the coffers ? Or is it just there infantile way of trying to look good to the working class 🤡🤡🤡🤡

[@leehenry5764]

So if im sick just 1 day, does that entitle me to sick pay?

[@JamesPhillipsOfficial]

I see pros and cons to this as a Reform voter, its the only good policy to come out of labor that ive seen. However good luck if you are wanting a job, whose gonna hire workers who can sue from day 1? If just 5 useless workers all sue for 1m or even £10,000 this could wipe out a small business I suggest Aptitude and Interactive tests, on top of the interview. Provide a internalised simulation of task testing and pick multiple choice answer in timed events, this further filters out people who would do a bad job even after getting hired No employer wants this liability, if the business goes bust, the job will cease to exist But i still support this policy because ive been sacked on day 1, employer wont give new people a chance, i think sacking is used as a power trip rather than genuine, they get pleasure out of it, ive seen it Just ask ourselves.. is government meddaling with the economy to try and fix the free market from having its way, just breaking it some more I imagine a lot of employers might dread this, for different reasons than in these comments....

[@richardlongmore9301]

With a all the useless workers we have in the uk today. Company’s need to be able to get rid of a employee that’s not fitting in quickly

[@Mike_5]

The 9 months period before this can be claimed is very important

[@mariamacielm8691]

And of course you he age of receive a state pension has to change as well as the ordinary workers are working sick or until dye ! Is shameful the every job are put in same baskets . After 30 or 50 years paying taxes many cannot think of retirement - it’s cruel ! 😢

[@WNR-x5v]

someone talked about level of stability and security... while the standard of workers at all levels is aberrant nowadays.Very few know how to work and even fewer want to work.

[@miket1783-j5j]

Will P&O be involved in this?

[@Roundhead75]

I want to know how you can flexibly be working on ferry lol they cant drop you off home whenever you feel like not working the day

[@kiethjones6540]

If a company only requires people on a short term basis what's the problem xmas is a timewhen a lot of companies recruit .if someone is payed to do a job and will not do it sack them why should other peoplehave to workhardernotfair get rid of shirkers not workers

[@pinxtownington4645]

Why not? already British goods are not compatible in world market but hai labour 's paymasters unions have to be kept happy,if country goes bankrupt so be it

[@zxbzxbzxb1]

Don't know what that woman saying she only got £100 a month sick pay. SSP is £116 a week, still rubbish but more than job seekers allowance. Might get more from Universal Credit or Employment support allowance but then you don't have a job to go back to...

[@etaokha4164]

Four words- LAZY

[@lady40445]

Reminds me of the anti-immigrant ranter who claimed, "Immigrants are not working and taking our jobs at the same time!!" That blew my head off😅😅😅

[@alpioozen]

⁠that's 4 letters you sponge.

[@mp71001]

@@alpioozen 🤣🤣

[@stigmontgomery7901]

People don't want to work nowadays. Think money grows on trees or the govt, just has to print more so they can watch reality TV shows at home or play games on the internet.

[@paulberry6926]

Pro business? You’re having a laugh!!! I agree on a review on zero hours, and reducing the probation period. Day 1 rights … I have had people start and then go off “sick” at lunch … we reduce flexibility, we reduce the wages and jobs available.

[@humptydumphty]

Bunch of weirdos pretending of doing something yet doing noting. Lord Ali s puppets

[@Car-ro2hw]

New rights for the first time?!? As long as managers can instruct nurses that "head injuries are not a priority here", because a specialist service would not be an A&E and make it hard for nurses to briefly assess, support a healthy outcome and liaise with GP surgeries, for example, there will be problems.... If managers are not concerned about the health impact of clinical negligence on Service Users and Staff, and how this relates to increased costs at another end, of course they will not change these attitudes. Maybe some are not educated? Feedback and evaluation should not be outsourced to binary systems operated by statisticians or others who never experienced the front line, because any evidence base that only asks Yes and No is missing context, breaking down complexity into departments and thereby creating cracks in the system, that exclude people with complex problems. I truly believe that no-one who works for their living really likes 0 hour contracts. Accountability for leaders would be a breath of fresh air, but there seems to be authority where that used to be.

[@canadianpsychologist]

It's been 6+ years and we have not forgotten: Cathy Newman committed listening and question-phrasing errors in her interview on January 16, 2018. We condemn you seriously, Cathy Newman. We are committed to criticizing your behavior and making sure that journalism is done in high standards.

[@michaelmais3657]

It means that they have to make sure that employ the right person; ie do their job correctly.

[@marcjouannet3794]

crime screen every apprasell suspension if fail, overtime times three for remaining staff to fill gap

[@gandhi9936]

Journos are comedic the way they try to downplay government policies.

[@hourbee5535]

So this means the cost of living goes even higher 😂

[@haztec.]

people said all the same things when Labour introduced the minimum wage back in the day, and none of it happened.

[@PythonesqueSpam]

This idea that if someone else gains then you correspondingly lose, is an association not based in reality. This fallacy is used whenever politicians want to justify something they know is unpopular. After 14 years of austerity, you've just become accustomed to reading about it in news media owned by the top 1% in possession of half the world's wealth.

[@DarrenSmith-tq2xz]

The cost of living crisis is because we have a dying currency we needed to adress the UK debt which is currently at 150 percent of debt to GDP and the currency has 1 percent of purchasing power left this is economics 101

[@steviefyre]

Genuine question, if increasing the minimum wage doesn't put up overall costs for goods and services, can you explain where the money comes from to top up minimum wage? From where I stand that would only leave 2 other options, businesses make efficiencies and hire less staff to do the same amount of work (raising unemployment) or they absorb the cost by reducing profit margins (unlikely due to greed and impact on share price for larger businesses). Did I miss anything?

[@NTVT1999]

Can you explain how you think this will be the case? And how existing business law isn’t both a) helping business at the expense of workers while also b) still causing cost of living rises?

[@najmabegum5789]

Coming out of EU and now trying to coming out of ECHR.....will be blessing for Brits I suppose.

[@DJSimac]

Oh yeah..... And what about workers rights within freeports and Enterprise Zones???? EH???

[@harold6863]

Well these lazy loafers will spend more time unemployed as small businesses will think again before hiring. This government have no idea!

[@moomin7461]

Always thinking the worst of people. I feel sorry for you with such a negative outlook on people.

[@dwow0wowb]

Sounds great as long as workers don’t abuse the system. This definitely doesn’t help small businesses. Labourer is only looking after unions in big companies.

[@Calmdown1354]

No one cares about small business, very few incentives left anymore!

[@stigmontgomery7901]

Too true! Their Union paymasters.

[@H-Lambda-]

Workers can't abuse the system, the system is entirely rigged against them. Wage theft by employers is significant however, as is underpayment and breaches of employment law. The only side abusing the system is employers.

[@teamev1976]

Ah just look at those British people. All going to be on the dole now.

[@jabbadabbajew6035]

Parents blag enough time off as it is. It’s even worse after Covid. One sniffle and they bail.

[@GampyBamblor]

100% dont forget leaving early for school pick up for a CHOICE they made

[@benhughes2563]

@@GampyBamblor Seethe.

[@jabbadabbajew6035]

@@benhughes2563 try harder. Stock Reddit Virgin vocabulary doesn’t count 😎

[@benhughes2563]

@@jabbadabbajew6035 It's the only vocabulary worth using against fuckwits pearl clutching over parents performing their parental duties.

[@kelvinsykes8963]

Another hand out to those incapable of holding down a job.

[@sambranton3346]

So basically now if you are looking for work disabled or csrrying illness you will not get the job in the first place.

[@Roundhead75]

Yes, labour have made it harder to get a job not easier as employers will now look at everything about you to see if you will cause trouble.

[@melindagallegan5093]

@@Roundhead75Don’t employers already look at everything already?

[@carrieellis8847]

a watered down bill sold out the worker to get donations cowards

[@slugzz1442]

So those who now work for a boss are the boss 🤦🏻‍♂️

[@Theprodigy9]

Business lobby own everything unfortunately

[@billyponsonby]

Another self serving, ineffective and expensive quango?

[@LewLew1993]

Companies (bosses) will have to actually have to put effort in to new employees instead of exploiting them and firing them

[@kiethjones6540]

Companies should find out potential people who they might employ check their employment background. If they have a poor attendance at the workplace then dont employ them

[@simonscott5104]

What a load of bs

[@Cody-pn9fy]

We should bring work house's back

[@vickywilliams8320]

And thats why people will stop taking on workers. Who wants to be stuck with a dead weight? Or did you miss that bit.

[@danjames4086]

Let's see if Farage wets his pants over this. That's usually a good barometer for a decent idea. Saying that, Labour could clone the magic money tree, cure cancer, control the weather and make Freddo's 10p again, and Farage would still claim it's an outrage. 😂

[@stigmontgomery7901]

Do I detect a faint whiff of bias here?

[@Roundhead75]

I see your totally happy with higher taxes .

[@bonditltd5346]

For any business, it means extra costs, which means lower profits and/or higher prices. Socialist ideology doesn’t match growth and the private investment they say they want. We’ve seen this with the latest London port debacle.

[@Stoynov666]

0:31 she looks like KELEBRIMBOR :D

[@leehenry5764]

They will just get rid of people before the 9 month period😂

[@benhughes2563]

Or they could just not be *cu nt s* and let people keep the job (providing they aren't commiting acts of gross misconduct or terrible performance)?