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Opinion polls show business leaders at odds with city leaders over Labour’s plans to reform workers’ rights.
More than 70% of managers support Labor’s proposed changes to employment law, including the right to flexible working and family-friendly policies, according to research by the Chartered Management Institute (CMI). ing. I And then I found LabourList.
Additionally, 80% believe that worker rights should be a top priority in national policy, while 83% said such changes could have a positive impact on workplace productivity. It has also become clear that
This is despite business groups warning about the impact of Labour’s plans, with many calling on the party to water down its pledges.
Rupert Soames, chairman of the Confederation of British Industry (CBI), which represents around 170,000 British companies, said earlier this year that the CBI was asking Labor to soften its proposals.
The City veteran, who previously headed outsourcing company Serco, told the Financial Times he wanted to help Labor avoid “areas of unintended consequences” in its plans.
Lord Mandelson, Tony Blair’s former business secretary and now chairman of a global consultancy advising businesses, also warned against “hurrying up” change, urging the party to go beyond “the settlements left behind by New Labor”. I urged him not to proceed.
But CMI policy director Anthony Painter said the poll showed many city leaders who oppose the plan “may want to check with their own leadership.” Ta.
“Organizations need to do away with the old conflicts between workers and bosses. Our research shows that they often want the same thing: a stable job, a confident and competent manager, a job “We know that people want to balance their life responsibilities effectively,” he continued.
Paul Nowak, general secretary of the Trades Union Congress (TUC), which supports Labour’s proposals, said the study showed “good employers need not fear Labour’s plans”.
“Managers know that employees do a better job when they are happy and safe at work,” he said.
“Since the Conservative Party came to power in 2010, precarious work has soared, living standards have fallen and productivity has fallen. Britain’s long experiment with a low-entitlement, low-wage economy has ended. ended in failure.
Mr Nowak continued: “Good employers need not fear Labour’s plans.”
Labor has pledged to deliver a New Deal for workers within 100 days of taking power, which aims to strengthen workers’ rights.
The plan includes a ban on zero-hour contracts and “fire-and-rehire” practices, as well as ensuring that workers have rights such as sick pay and parental leave from day one.
Other proposals include introducing a ‘right to switch off’ to ensure employees have no contact outside of working hours, strengthening the right to flexible working and strengthening protection against discrimination in the workplace. There is.