{"id":245633,"date":"2025-11-05T16:49:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-05T16:49:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/245633\/"},"modified":"2025-11-05T16:49:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-05T16:49:08","slug":"what-needs-to-change-to-get-more-people-working","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/245633\/","title":{"rendered":"What needs to change to get more people working?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Some business groups have pointed out a “clash” with the Keep Britain Working report and the Employment Rights Bill<\/a> due to take effect in two years.<\/p>\n

The proposed new law includes a right to guaranteed hours and cracks down on zero-hour contracts without the offer of work.<\/p>\n

Helen Dickinson, chief executive of the British Retail Consortium said the review and bill were “at odds with one another”.<\/p>\n

“In its current form, the Employment Rights Bill would make it harder for retailers to continue offering as many crucial flexible roles.”<\/p>\n

Ms Nicholls at UKHospitality which has been working closely with Sir Charlie said “unless its carefully managed there is a clash”.<\/p>\n

She said in its current form the Employment Rights Bill proposed workers were offered guaranteed hours based on an average they had done over a 12-week period.<\/p>\n

“If we are providing supported pathways back into work or employing people with ill health and mental health issues the key is flexibility.<\/p>\n

“Some weeks they can do eight hours, some weeks 40 hours, some weeks none,” she said.<\/p>\n

Mr Hanrahan from chemicals manufacturer, Robinson Brothers said he “completely objected” to day one rights.<\/p>\n

“It’s so difficult to try and recruit people in the first place, the hoops we have to jump through, the questions we’re not allowed to ask.<\/p>\n

“Normally you have a probation period, in our company it’s six months, and now we’re saying day one rights. There’s a big disconnect between what you’re asking of us and reality.<\/p>\n

“It will stop us employing more people because the risk of taking someone on and giving them day one rights that’s high risk, very high risk.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Some business groups have pointed out a “clash” with the Keep Britain Working report and the Employment Rights…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":245634,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[96,391,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-245633","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-tv","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245633","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=245633"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245633\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/245634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}