Worker Rights
Labour Manifesto 2017 – Workers Rights
“Strengthening workers’ rights should be Labour’s priority” – Jeremy Corbyn comment in the Guardian.
- Workers need not only minimum guaranteed hours, but also reasonable compensation for being available.
- Strengthening unions’ ability to bargain collectively. Should be mandatory for all employers with over 250 staff to bargain collectively with recognised trade unions.
- True living wage.
- Labour has set up Workplace 2020, a national conversation with the self-employed, business and the public, supported by the trade unions, to develop a new settlement for business and the workforce.
- Labour would reform the takeover code to ensure any corporate buyer has the means to acquire a company without saddling it with debt (avoid situations such as BHS)
- Public investment in infrastructure and the industries of the future centre stage, driven by a national investment bank in every region of the country. Raising investment to a new level to transform our economy & provide the high-skill jobs.
- Better enforcement of workers rights through the Gangmasters License Authority & HMRC.
