Webinar Recording with Ward Hadaway: What the UK General Election Result Means for your Business
Posted July 24, 2024On Thursday 18th of July our Regional Director, Daniel Simmonite and Vicky Weir, from Sanderson’s Manchester Office partnered with with Ward Hadaway and their employment partners Caroline Shafar and Laura Darnley to deliver a webinar discussing the key HR changes businesses can expect to see in line with the Employment Rights and Equality (Race and Disability) Bills as set out in the King’s Speech.
If you missed this webinar, you can listen to the recording where we cover the discussion points below, along with practical tips for businesses to navigate this period of change.
Watch a full recording of this Webinar here.
Here is a summary of the key discussion points:
• Ban on Exploitative Zero-Hour Contracts: Ensuring fair employment terms by prohibiting exploitative contracts without guaranteed hours.
• Day-One Employment Protections: Granting immediate unfair dismissal protection from the first day of employment (although probationary periods will be permitted).
• Ban on Fire and Rehire Practices: Preventing dismissing and rehiring employees on less favourable terms.
• Day-One Statutory Sick Pay (SSP): Legal requirement to pay statutory sick pay from the first day of employment and removal of the lower earnings threshold.
• Flexible Working by Default: Establishing flexible working arrangements as the standard for all employees.
• Protection for Maternity Leave Returners: Making it unlawful to dismiss a maternity leave returner except under specific, justified circumstances.
• Trade Union Recognition Reforms: Implementing changes to trade union recognition and negotiating rights.
• Equality Legislation: Introducing the Equality (Race and Disability) Bill. Mandatory ethnicity and disability pay gap reporting for large employers.
• Extend Equal Pay Rights: New right for employees to bring equal pay claims based on ethnicity and disability, not just gender.