As trade union activists around the country make the case for trade unions, Labour is highlighting the ways a future Labour Government will support those in work through their ‘New Deal Working People’.
A Labour Government will build an economy that works for working people, bringing forward an Employment Rights Bill to legislate for this within a hundred days of taking office.
Labour’s New Deal will:
- Ban zero-hour contracts
- End fire and rehire
- Ensure a genuine living wage
- Guarantee basic rights from day one
- Give you stronger, properly enforced, protections at work
- Strengthen sick pay and extend it to low paid workers
- Tackle the gender pay gap
Commenting on Labour’s ‘New Deal, Peter Lamb–Labour parliamentary candidate for Crawley, said:
“Since the decline of trade union membership from its 1970s peak, real wages and conditions at work have steadily reduced. During the last 14 years of Conservative Government, the rise of the gig economy and loss of access to employment tribunals has only accellerated this process.
“The current Cost of Living Crisis has in large part caused by people’s incomes failing to keep pace with inflation under the Conservatives. Had growth rates match that of the last Labour Government, households would be £8,000 better off right now.”
“The next Labour Government will get to work giving citizens the rights at work that they need to be able to make ends meet and move in in their careers through the introduction of its New Deal for Working People.”
Angela Rayner, Labour Deputy Leader And Shadow Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities said:
“The Tories promised to level up rights at work, but instead they’ve failed working people and ushered in a race to the bottom. People are worse off, trapped in the cycle of insecure work, and unable to plan for the future.
“Labour’s New Deal for Working People is our plan to boost wages, make work more secure and support working people to thrive. It’s how Labour will make work pay – ensuring a genuine living wage, banning zero hour contracts, and ending fire and rehire.
“A Labour Government will build an economy that works for working people, bringing forward an Employment Rights Bill to legislate for this within a hundred days of taking office.
“Our New Deal is core to our mission to bring growth in Britain, raising living standards and boosting productivity in every part of the country. It’s how we’ll end the Tories’’ cycle of low pay, low investment and low productivity.”
“As both a pro-worker and pro-business party, we know that only by creating well-paid jobs across all parts of our country will make working people better off and more secure.”
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