The Labour Party’s new deal for working people – significant employment law reform on the horizon

Our expert panel will share first hand insights from attending the recent Labour Party conference and consider the implications of Labour's proposals to reform employment law and what these might mean for employers. 

At the TUC Conference in September, shadow Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner renewed the Labour Party's promise of a new deal for working people and the pledge to introduce new employment laws in the first 100 days of a new Labour government. If implemented, the Labour Party's current proposals to reform employment law could bring about the most significant strengthening of workplace rights in more than a generation. 

Areas of focus for the discussion and the questions the panel will seek to answer include:

• Single worker status and basic day 1 rights: What will moving to a two-part framework comprising just workers and the self-employed mean, alongside a planned extension of basic day 1 rights? What rights are likely to become day 1? Will Labour follow the European trend of introducing a right to disconnect from work, and would that change our always-on culture? How should employers prepare?
• Zero-hours contracts and the right to minimum hours: Will banning zero-hours contracts reduce flexibility and what challenges might emerge?
• Trade unions and collective action: What will banning fire and rehire/replace look like in practice? With Labour seeking to make it easier for trade unions to secure statutory recognition, what could a right of trade union entry to workplaces mean for non-unionised employers?
• DE&I, pay gap reporting and family rights: Will proposed changes to the harassment framework raise the bar, and how? With plans to mandate ethnicity and disability pay gap reporting and include outsourced workers in gender pay gap reports, will Labour’s focus on reporting quicken the pace of change on equality? What commitments to family rights have Labour made, and what is missing?

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