Amendments to the Employment Right Bill will harm Britain’s flexible labour market and damage the economy, says John Hayes

Yesterday the government tabled amendments to the Employment Rights Bill following weeks of consultation and responses from business groups, trade unions and the wider “civil society.

In the main, these changes will be a “growth killer” not a growth maker but one change in particular will be really damaging to UK PLC and, in particular, those workers who rely on a flexible way of working to get into the labour market.

The accompanying press release states that “The Government Plan to Make Work Pay is “a core part of the mission to........

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