The Labour government’s highly publicised plans to improve workers’ rights and end years of stagnating wages, insecure jobs and in-work poverty are full of ambiguities and lack crucial detail, a leading thinktank on the future of work has concluded.
A report by the Autonomy Institute, which promotes a fairer and more democratic economy, says the new deal for working people has the potential to move the UK’s labour market on from a “lost decade” of increasing exploitation, while at the same time playing a key role in Keir Starmer’s mission to drive up economic growth.
But it says “questions remain over many crucial details of the programme” and that “it will need to go further if it wishes to truly represent a meaningful agenda for reform”.
It insists that all the core commitments that Labour made in the run-up to the general election must be delivered “in full without any more rollbacks” when the employment right’s bill is published later this year.
Doubts were expressed about Labour’s commitment to full delivery when it emerged earlier this year that the party had downgraded a pledge to put an end to all zero-hours contracts, and would instead ban only “exploitative” elements of the contracts.
The institute also says Labour appears to have backtracked on a commitment to introduce a single “worker” status in order to end “bogus self-employment”, which allows employers to save on costs such as national insurance payments and paid holidays.
It calls for more details on the...
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