BDBF Webinar || Labour's big plans for employment law

On 17 June 2024, BDBF’s expert team considered what changes a Labour Government might make to employment law. Our webinar explores the following key proposals:

- Replacing employee and worker statuses with a single worker status for all.
- Upgrading unfair dismissal to a “Day 1” right for which uncapped compensation will be available.
- Improving family-friendly rights and strengthening other statutory employment rights.
- Protecting interns and volunteers from sexual harassment and requiring employers to take steps to prevent harassment by third parties.
- Extending the right to claim equal pay to black, Asian, minority ethnic and disabled workers.
- Enacting the dual discrimination protections in the Equality Act 2010.
- Expanding pay reporting requirements to cover disability and ethnicity pay gaps.
- Banning the practice of “fire and rehire”.
- Introducing a “right to disconnect” from work for the first time.
- Increasing the time limits for Employment Tribunal claims.

0:10 // Introduction
6:26 // Employment status
12:05 // Contracts and pay
16:02 // Equality law
22:10 // Work life balance
28:01 // Family leave
31:37 // Other statutory rights
35:49 // Mandatory employer reporting
41:03 // Disputes and dismissals
51:14 // Tribunals and enforcement
54:13 // What else?
55:45 // Contact details