The five largest British business groups have warned that the Government Workers' Rights Bill “would have deeply harmful implications” for economic growth because they have urged their peers to modify legislation in the Chamber of Lords.
In an open letter to legislators Thursday, the so-called groups of the B5 industry raised concerns concerning the provided for the dismissal dismissal, a right to guarantee of hours contracts, an almost prohibition of the practices of “fire and rebuilt” disputed and new powers for unions.
The letter was signed by the British Chambers of CommerceThe CBI, the Institute of Directors, the Federation of Small Businesses, and manufacture the United Kingdom.
“As currently written, the bill (employment rights) will have implications deeply prejudicial to the priority growth mission of the government”, as well as the plans of ministers to combat growing economic inactivity – in particular young people, have declared business groups.
Calling peers to “fully examine and improve this legislation” to ensure that it was both pro-enterprise and pro-tapper and “to prevent unnecessary damage to employment and growth”, the groups declared that the bill was “a recipe for damaging damage and not to raise, at present”.
Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer supervised the legislation, a key pillar of the Labor Elections Manifesto last year, as the greater upgrade of workers' rights for a generation. But official estimates have put the cost of the company reform package up to 5 billion sterling pounds per year.
The legislation is expected to enter the committee phase in the upper House of the House of Lords, in the United Kingdom, later this month, when peers have the opportunity to present and vote on the modifications.
Business groups have warned that the introduction of so -called first time protection against unfair dismissal would strike the confidence of companies to hire new employees.
They insisted on the fact that employers had to be able to reject without risk of facing an unfair dismissal request in the court during the nine -month probation period.
The B5 also said that the increase in legal responsibility for remuneration in statutory disease “would disproportionately hang companies that are most likely to employ those likely to be sick”, asking that the invoice be modified to restore a sickness -statutory remuneration discount.
Another point of collage of the rights of the rights, the groups claiming that the current plan has abolished the mechanisms of responsibility on unions and was a “conflict recipe not for cooperation”.
Andrew Griffith, conservative secretary of ghost affairs, said that “so that the best trade groups in the United Kingdom call to rethink a powerful message”, and said the ministers had trouble supporting any support for industry legislation.
Whitehall's figures retaliated, highlighting the public support for the elements of group legislation such as Centrica, Rich Sounds and Co-OP.
The government said it “brought the greatest upgrade of workers' rights in a generation, and our measures already have strong support between businesses and the public.”
Stressing the in -depth consultation that the Department of Affairs and Commerce launched with business on the proposals, it added: “We will commit to the implementation of legislation to ensure that it works for employers and workers.”
