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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 Promise to Create a Single Employment Status

Alan Kitto

The Labour Party announced earlier this week its plans, if elected to Government, to amalgamate the current statuses of ‘employee’ and ‘worker’ into one ‘worker’ status, encompassing employees, zero hours workers and casual workers.

Their proposal is to give this new status equal employment rights, in line with those currently afforded to employees. This would include the right not to be unfairly dismissed and redundancy payments.

Andy McDonald MP, Labour’s Shadow Employment Rights and Protections Secretary. said:

'Millions of workers are in insecure employment with low pay and few rights and protections, particularly key workers whose efforts got the country through the pandemic.’

'A lack of basic rights and protections forces working people into poverty and insecurity. This is terrible for working people, damaging for the economy, and as we have seen throughout the pandemic, devastating for public health.'

In addition, Labour’s proposal is that they will afford the new status of ‘worker’ employment rights from day one of employment, removing the two year window where employees can currently be dismissed without being able to bring an unfair dismissal claim. This would likely mean, if nothing else that employers would been to adopt much more stringent probationary assessment processes and would only be able to dismiss an employee for one of the listed fair reasons for dismissal.

Genuinely self-employed contractors will be unaffected by Labour’s proposal.