Business groups urge changes to reforms

The five largest business groups in the United Kingdom have written an open letter that asks for urgent changes to the Government Labor Rights Law.

The new law proposes, which must examine the House of Lords this month, includes a right at guaranteed hours and take energetic measures against zero -hour contracts without the job offer.

But the British cameras of Commerce, the Confederation of the British industry, the Institute of Directors, the Federation of Small Businesses and make the United Kingdom warn that the bill in its current form could reach an uncertain growth for the economy of the United Kingdom.

The Government insists that the bill will deliver the “greater update to workers’ rights” in a generation. ”

The new Wolde Labor Law Project guarantees new rights for workers since the first day of their employment.

These include illness payment, protection against unfair dismissal and parental license, as well as the right to request flexible work.

New restrictions on “fire and integral” processes, when employees let themselves go and then use again in new contracts with worse or conditions will also appear in the bill.

In a rare joint intervention, business groups said they support the central objectives of the government to improve productivity, wages and rights of workers.

But the groups said the bill “would damage growth and employment, undermining the government’s own objectives.”

They argue that the changes will discourage companies that hire “particularly those on the margins of the labor market” as businesses, not because it will risk the expensive cases of the court.

The business groups also urged the lords to consider whether the contracts of the guaranteed fixed hours could be counterproductive, reduce the flexibility for both employers and personnel, and introduce unnecessary administrative costs.

In response to the letter, a government spokesman said that the bill will represent “the greatest update to workers’ rights in a generation, and our measures already have strong support between businesses and the public.”

“We have widely consulted with businesses on our proposals,” added the spokesman. “We will get involved in the implementation of the legislation to ensure that it works for employers and workers equally.”

Last month, the budget responsibility office (OBR) said that the Employment Rights Law has not been able to take into account in its forecast, since there are not enough details available in politics.

However, he said that regulations that “affect the flexibility of companies and labor markets” may have “material and probable negative and economic impacts on employment, prices and productivity.”

The Secretary of Business of the Conservative Shadow, Andrew Griffith, said that the main business groups of the United Kingdom ask for retahink “sends a powerful message.”

“Business groups are right when they say that as it was currently written, the bill will have deeply harmful implications for the government’s priority growth mission,” he said.

“The world has changed, the government must file this disaster of a bill now.”