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Where next?

Where next?. Hannah Reed Senior Employment Rights Officer. Campaigning to stop attacks on worker rights Effective workplace organisation Pressing for change. Government’s employment rights agenda. Making it easier for employers to sack people

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Where next?

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  1. Where next? Hannah Reed Senior Employment Rights Officer

  2. Campaigning to stop attacks on worker rights • Effective workplace organisation • Pressing for change

  3. Government’s employment rights agenda • Making it easier for employers to sack people • Making it harder for workers to enforce their rights • Weakening restructuring rights

  4. Weaker dismissal rights • Extending qualifying period for unfair dismissal from 12 months to 2 years • More than 3 million people lose out • Young and BME workers particularly affected • Reduced compensatory awards in UD claims • Disadvantage part time / low paid employees; older workers

  5. Fees for ET users: limiting access to justice

  6. Priced out of justice: Fees for ETs • Remission scheme limited - many workers on NMW wages will have to pay fees • For some ET fees = significant proportion / exceed the value of their claim * Seta Findings 2008; ** ET & EAT Stats 2011-12

  7. Weaker collective redundancy rights • Shorter consultation periods: 45 days where 100+ employees at risk • Excluding fixed term contract staff

  8. TUPE • Some service sector workers may lose TUPE rights • Low paid women / BME workers in cleaning and catering sectors • Increased uncertainty and increased job insecurity • Increased flexibility for employers to vary pay and conditions after a transfer • Erosion of pay and conditions • Increased inequality

  9. Stop employee wrongsTUC Campaign http://stopemploymentwrongs.org

  10. Effective workplace organisation

  11. Settlement agreements • Encouraging employers to use the offer a settlement agreement to end the employment relationship • Without need for disciplinary procedure

  12. Negotiated settlements?

  13. Pressing for change

  14. Pressing for change • Fair Pay • Protecting outsourced workers • Reducing casualisation • Building strong unions

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