Labour’s flagship workers' rights bill will cost around £5 billion per year, Government analysis has shown.
Labour’s flagship workers' rights bill will cost around £5 billion per year, Government analysis has shown. Ministers described the Employment Rights Bill as the biggest boost to pay and productivity in the workplace in a generation.As part of the Bill, workers will be given sick pay from the first day they are ill, new probation protections and greater freedom at work.
She added: "Beyond warm words, it lacks any real pro-growth element and will increase economic inactivity, seriously jeopardising the Government's own 80 per cent employment target." There are 28 separate changes in the Bill, with most of them not expected to be implemented before the autumn of 2026.
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