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With the National Minimum Wage (NMW) now almost fifteen years old, and with another increase pending on 1st April 2017 HMRC have issued a list of the most elaborate excuses they've been given by employers for not paying the appropriate rates:

Labour Party Proposes a Ministry for Employment Rights

Alan Kitto

The Labour Party is today announcing plans to create a Ministry for Employment Rights, along with a Workers' Protection Agency to enforce those rights, in what would be substantial repositioning of employment and trade union law.

The proposals for individual employment rights include:-

  • fixing the problem of different categories of workers with different rights by creating a single status of ‘worker’ for everyone apart from those genuinely self-employed

  • ending the “Swedish derogation” which permits employers to pay agency workers less than regular staff for the same work

  • the introduction of a civil enforcement system to ensure compliance with gender pay auditing

  • giving all workers the right to seek flexible working, and placing a duty on the employer to accommodate the request

  • a statutory Real Living Wage of £10 per hour by 2020 for all workers aged 16 or over

  • banning unpaid internships

  • banning zero hours contracts by requiring employers to give all workers a contract that accurately reflects their fixed and regular hours

The proposals for collective rights include:-

  • making it easier for workers to have their say at work, including allowing electronic and workplace ballots

  • giving trade unions the right of entry to workplaces to organise members and to meet and represent their members

  • banning anti-union practice and the strengthening of protection of trade union representatives against unfair dismissal

  • repealing the Trade Union Act 2016 in its entirety

Obviously Labour have to be elected and form a government before any of these proposals can be brought into law.