Labour's plan to change workplace rights would cripple businesses, reduce investment and lead to more strikes, the Business Secretary warns today.
The New Deal for Working People, proposed by Ms Rayner in 2021, would ban zero-hour contracts and ensure workers get regular hours for 12 weeks or more. It also pledges to give workers a 'right to switch off' and not be contacted outside working hours, as well as making flexible working 'a day-one right'.
Writing in this newspaper, Kemi Badenoch says 'we should all be worried' about Sir Keir Starmer and Angela Rayner meeting union chiefs to discuss the proposals She argues that the Tories understand the 'delicate balancing act' between employees and employers, while Labour 'does not'.