What’s happening? Following their commitment to deliver new rights at work within their first 100 days, Labour’s new government have introduced the Employment Rights Bill, which will cover England, Scotland and Wales. Taken together, the Bill represents a clear break from recent governments’ stripping of employment protections, and has been broadly welcomed by the trade union movement. Among the Bill’s provisions are: The revocation of the previous government’s minimum services legislation, which would have seriously impinged healthcare workers’ right to strike. The verdict: The repeal of this
