Company bosses will still be able to fire new employees more easily than longer-serving workers under Labour’s overhaul of employment rights, despite the party’s promise to protect against unfair dismissal.has hit back at claims he is watering down his promised package of workers’ rights in the face of intense lobbying from businesses.remain in talks with firms as they tweak the details of the new laws, amid fears that hiring could become harder if employees gain significant new powers.
But it is continuing to go through the proposal, to ensure it does not leave employers with what a shadow minister described as “reams of paperwork” if a new hire does not work out, and does not discourage companies from taking people on.insisted that the right to claim unfair dismissal would apply from day one of employment, rather than only kicking in after two years.
As to the work that is being done now, we will be putting it into a form that our candidates can campaign on, because we see it as a central plank of the election campaign and what we hope to do if we are lucky enough to get into government.”