Labour to strengthen workers’ rights ‘within first 100 days’, Rayner says

Labour will put in power plans to bolster workers’ rights within 100 days of going down of job, Angela Rayner stated today.

The deputy rep together leader told Labour’s conference that plans to enhance protections for gig workers and enshrine overall employment rights from the first day of a job had no longer been watered down.

Media studies following Labour’s national coverage forum this 365 days had prompt the plans had been weakened.

But as Rayner took to the stage in Liverpool new from Labour’s victory in the Rutherglen and Hamilton West by-election, she insisted the “rumours” possess been counterfeit.

“Be in no question – no longer with Keir and I on the helm,” she stated. “We’ll ban zero-hour contracts, fireplace-and-rehire, and provides workers overall rights from day one.

“We’ll roam further and sooner in closing the gender pay gap, make work more family-friendly, and address sexual harassment.

“And we obtained’t stop there. We’ll make determined that unions can get up for their members. We can enhance collective bargaining, to strengthen workers’ pay, terms and prerequisites.”

She later added: “But it absolutely can totally be done with Labour in energy – and as deputy prime minister – I will personally table the laws imposing our Unusual Deal For Working Americans, within 100 days of going down of job.”

Rayner additionally pledged that a Labour government would “elevate the largest enhance in affordable and social housing for a abilities”, including unique council housing.

She stated her rep together would reform the planning machine to tempo up constructing unique social and affordable properties, in addition to looking for to strengthen renters’ rights, and abolishing leasehold.

Trades Union Congress overall secretary Paul Nowak stated Labour’s workers rights notion turned into once the “biggest upgrade in workers’ rights in a abilities”.

He added: “We need employment requirements fit for the 21st century so that everyone is aware of they’ll be handled slightly at work with respectable pay and prerequisites.

“Correct employers would possibly possibly perhaps also aloof welcome these plans. The Unusual Deal will abet create more productive workplaces and stop rogue bosses from undercutting the totally.”

With Press Association – David Lynch and Richard Wheeler