Labour’s New Deal for Work
Throughout the pandemic, working people kept our country on its feet by caring for society’s most vulnerable, keeping essential services running and keeping food on shop shelves. However, too many did so whilst being in insecure roles without proper rights and protections. We can’t allow that to continue.
The pandemic bought into sharp focus the imbalance of power in the workplace. Wages have stagnated for over a decade, and work is becoming increasingly insecure. Working people need better rights, stronger unions and a Labour government to win the new deal at work they deserve. However, the Conservatives have reacted by crashing the economy from Downing Street with their casino economics, leaving working people to pay with higher prices, higher mortgage rates and weaker employment rights.
Labour’s New Deal for Working People, launched by Angela Rayner at Conference 2021 and drawn up in partnership with Labour’s affiliated unions, is our comprehensive plan to improve the lives of working people by strengthening individual and collective rights.
A Labour Government will bring forward an Employment Bill within 100 days of taking office;
· Labour will strengthen rights at work from day one on the job.
· Labour will end fire and rehire.
· Labour will make work more family-friendly, and it easier to balance work with home, community and family life.
· Labour will ban zero-hours contracts.
· Labour will strengthen trade union rights, raising pay and conditions.
· Labour will roll out Fair Pay Agreements to drive up pay and conditions.
We are also committed to opposing this government’s disruptive anti-worker proposals that will do nothing but land more costs on workers, and we will oppose and repeal Liz Truss’ further anti-union laws.
The link from the workplace to the Labour Party through its affiliated trade unions is what makes Labour unique. I hope we can continue to work collaboratively to tackle the urgent problems we face as a country, from stagnating wages to insecure work.
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