UK plans autumn law to enhance workers' rights
The British Labour Party announced on Saturday that it will put out the most "packed legislative agenda" for a new government in decades, which included measures to fortify job rights and tenant protection in the autumn.
The Leader of the House of Commons, Lucy Powell, stated that the government will present legislation in the coming months that aims to shift power from employers to workers and give renters the ability to contest arbitrary rent hikes. Parliament is scheduled to reconvene on Monday after its summer break.
The Employment Rights Bill will restrict fire and rehire methods and criminalise zero-hour contracts, which affect around 1 million workers in Britain who have employment contracts that do not set a minimum amount of hours they can work and only pay for the hours they are on shift.
The Renters' Rights Bill forbids landlord discrimination against families with children and eliminates the possibility of arbitrary evictions.