New analysis from Lewisham Labour reveals up to 5200 local workers could benefit from Labour’s ban of exploitative zero-hour contracts – alongside a raft of other measures designed to end unfair employment practices and help deliver economic growth.
The Government’s Employment Rights Bill will ban exploitative zero-hours contracts, end fire and rehire and introduce basic employment rights from day one – like paternity and parental leave and protection from unfair dismissal. It also introduces the right to bereavement leave from day one.
This is the biggest upgrade to workers’ rights in a generation and a significant step towards delivering this government’s plan to make work pay.
Publishing the analysis, Lewisham Labour Mayor Brenda Dacres said,
“Everybody in Lewisham deserves basic rights and protections at work – whether that’s freedom from the risk of fire and rehire or day one rights like paternity leave and protection from unfair dismissal.
“Up to 5200 workers in Lewisham could benefit from the ban on exploitative zero-hour contracts alone. These are real, practical improvements that are going to change lives.
“That is the change Labour promised – modern rights at work designed to give us all the protections we need, to create a workforce ready to deliver the economic growth we are crying out for after 14 years of stagnation under the Conservatives.”