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IntroductionKeir Starmer is braced for a showdown with unions over Labour's workers' rights package today.The pa ...
Keir Starmer is braced for a showdown with unions over Labour's workers' rights package today.
The party leader will meet union chiefs later as they warn he must not water down the plans, despite alarm from business.
The policy - championed by Angela Rayner - has been threatening to cause a rift at the top of Labour, with both Sir Keir and shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves hinting key elements could be watered down.
Scrapping zero-hours contracts and banning out-of-hours emails have been touted as measures that could be downgraded.
However, Unite general secretary Sharon Graham has warned that changes would be 'a betrayal'.
TUC chief Matt Wrack has suggested the issues will be discussed at one of their regular meetings with Sir Keir today.
The workers' rights package - championed by Angela Rayner (right) - has been threatening to cause a rift at the top of Labour, with both Keir Starmer (centre) and shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves (left) hinting key elements could be watered down
Unite general secretary Sharon Graham has warned that changes would be 'a betrayal'
The proposals, unveiled in 2021 and championed by Ms Rayner, included giving workers a 'right to switch off' without being contacted outside working hours.
It also proposed making flexible working 'a day one right', as well as removing the government's new restrictions on strikes.
Ms Reeves insisted last week that she stands by the plans and legislation will be brought forward within 100 days of Labour forming a government.
However, she suggested it will be a finessed package with zero hours contracts allowed if people actively want them, and said businesses had 'nothing to fear' from the package.
Labour has denied there will be any weakening of the plan, while accepting there will be implementation detail.
The Guardian and FT said that a document sent to unions ahead of the meeting pledged to meet the 100-day deadline but contains caveats that have angered leaders.
The 100-days would see the 'starting the legislative process' rather than any concrete changes.
Last week Ms Graham said: 'This new Labour document on the New Deal, issued to the unions on Monday, is a row back on a row back. It is totally unrecognisable from the original proposals produced with the unions. Unrecognisable.
TUC chief Matt Wrack has suggested the issues will be discussed at one of their regular meetings with Sir Keir today
'Workers will see through this and mark this retreat after retreat as a betrayal.
'This new document is turning what was a real new deal for workers into a charter for bad bosses. Labour don't want a law against fire and rehire and they are effectively ripping up the promise of legislation on a new deal for workers in its first 100 days. Instead, we have codes of conduct and pledges of consultation with big business. Likewise, the proposal to legislate against zero hours contracts is watered down to almost nothing.'
The New Deal would be the latest Labour policy to be scaled back after the party diluted its flagship £28-billion-a-year green spending pledge.
The Opposition blamed the Government's handling of the economy when it confirmed the row-back in February, citing Liz Truss's mini-budget in September 2022 and higher interest rates.
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