Guaranteed hours for zero hours and agency workers will be a disaster Opinion Amendments to the Employment Right Bill will harm Britain’s flexible labour market and damage the economy, says John Hayes Yesterday the government tabled amendments to the Employment Rights Bill following weeks of consultation and responses from business groups, trade unions and the wider “civil society. In the main, these changes will be a “growth killer” [...]
Stuart Rose is wrong: the world has moved on from the shop floor Opinion Stuart Rose has claimed that remote working is “not proper work”. That may make sense for retail but it’s wide of the mark when it comes to legal and financial services, says John Hayes Stuart Rose, the former head of supermarkets, Asda, Ocado and M&S and one of the most influential retailers of the past [...]
Adding agency workers into the strikes row will nurture a prolonged political headache John Hayes Last week, Grant Shapps, the Transport Secretary, defended plans to allow businesses to use agency staff to plug gaps caused by striking workers. For the unions, this is tantamount to cutting them off at the knees. Britain’s workforce has changed fundamentally since the law in question was introduced, in 2003. Agency workers are now part [...]
