The Labour Party’s 2021 Green Paper set out a wide-ranging reform agenda, including a range of proposed changes to employment law. Many of the Green Paper proposals were reflected more recently in a policy programme shared by the LabourList and, if signed off by the party’s national policy forum over the summer, will likely form part of the party’s election manifesto.
What are Labour’s proposals to reform employment status?
Labour’s proposals in relation to employment status are in line with its stated mission to strengthen individual and collective rights and protections to “create more and better jobs” and improve job security. Labour aims to end what it describes as “bogus self-employment” by preventing “unscrupulous” employers falsely putting individuals into a category with fewer rights “undercutting good employers”. The proposals included in the Green Paper include:
As employment law (save for some matters) is devolved for the Northern Ireland Assembly to legislate on, these proposals related to employment law in Great Britain. The current lack of a functioning Assembly and Government makes it impossible to predict with confidence what may happen in Northern Ireland regarding...
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