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Employment Espresso Pods: Labour's Proposals: Part 1 (Podcast)
16 October 2023
Herbert Smith Freehills
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In the first of a new season of Employment Espresso Pods,
Partner Tim Leaver, together with Consultant Peter Frost and Senior
Associate Sian McKinley, discuss the key employment-related
proposals put forward by the Labour Party in its Green Paper last
year and the recent party conference.
Particularly eye-catching proposals on Labour's agenda
discussed in this podcast include: (1) a new single status of
"worker", (2) unfair dismissal as a "day one"
employment right, (3) a ban on zero hours contracts, and (4) trade
union reform.
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