GENERAL ELECTION – 8TH JUNE

by | Jun 7, 2017

Still undecided about who gets your vote? 
WHAT’S IN THE MANIFESTOS?

Convervatives:

  • Guarantee EU employment legislation will be retained after Brexit
  • Greater protection and rights for workers on boards, extend to staff the right of shareholders to access company information
  • Extend the Equality Act to cover mental health
  • A right to request training
  • Pay gap reporting on ethnicity;more returnship opportunities for mums
  • Increase in the national living wage in line with overall wages
  • Up to a year of unpaid leave to care for a sick relative.

Labour:

  • Raise the minimum wage to £10 by 2020 and scrap public sector pay cap
  • Ban zero-hour contracts, unpaid internships and umbrella companies
  • Repeal the Trade Union Act and remove employment tribunal fees
  • Equal rights for all workers from the first day of employment, whether part time, full time, perm or temporary.
  • Extend paid paternity leave to four weeks and increase paternity pay
  • Strengthen protection against unfair redundancy for women
  • Guarantee rights for EU nationals living in Britain
  • Four new public holidays per year.

Liberal Democrats:

  • End the public sector pay gap and employment tribunal fees
  • Back creation and adoption of a good employer kite mark covering areas such as paying the living wage and using name-blind recruitment
  • A right for those on zero-hour contracts to request a fixed contract and consult on rights to request more regular working patterns
  • Aim to double the number of business hiring apprentices
  • An additional “use it or lose it” month of shared parental leave
  • Campaign for the UK to guarantee rights of EU citizens in the country
  • Update employment rights  to take into account the gig economy

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