New analysis from Hertsmere Labour reveals up to 1712 local workers could benefit from Labour’s ban of exploitative zero-hour contracts – alongside a raft of beneficiaries of a measures designed to end unfair employment practices and help deliver economic growth.
The Government’s Employment Rights Bill will ban exploitative zero-hours contracts, end fire and rehire, and introduce basic employment rights from day one – like paternity and parental leave, and protection from unfair dismissal. It also introduces right to bereavement leave from day one.
This is the biggest upgrade to workers’ rights in a generation, and a significant step towards delivering this government’s plan to make work pay.
Publishing the analysis, Labour’s Cllr Jeremy Newmark, Leader of Hertsmere Borough Council said,
“Everybody in Hertsmere deserves basic rights and protections at work – whether that’s freedom from the risk of fire and rehire or day one rights like paternity leave and protection from unfair dismissal.
“Up to 1712 in Hertsmere could benefit from the ban on exploitative zero-hour contracts alone. These are real, practical improvements that are going to change lives.
“That is the change Labour promised – modern rights at work designed to give us all the protections we need, and create a workforce ready to deliver the economic growth we so badly need after 14 years of stagnation under the Conservatives.”