The Future Of Work

How can Labour ensure its industrial strategy and other policies support creating good,
secure work in the everyday economy?
Strengthening individual and collective rights must be at the heart of Labour's plan to
create good, secure jobs.
Labour and its affiliated trade unions worked together through the Power in the Workplace
Taskforce, to look at how the world of work can be transformed for the better with
strengthened collective and individual rights and protections for all working people.
Labour has agreed all the conclusions of the Power in the Workplace Taskforce, and a
Labour Government will implement them in full. The Green Paper on Employment Rights
published at Conference 2021, and agreed by Conference 2022, is the heart of our New
Deal for Working People, with a host of measures to ensure all jobs are good jobs and
tackle insecurity, stagnant pay and the growth of in-work poverty. Labour is committed to
strengthening the rights of working people by empowering workers to organise collectively
through trade unions.
Core tenets of the New Deal include: employment protections from day one and
strengthened protections for the self-employed; the banning of zero-hours contracts and
ensuring everyone has the right to regular hours they can rely on; the banning of 'fire and
rehire' of workers and the 'fire and replacement' of workers as seen by P&O Ferries; a
single status for all workers; enhanced and legally enforceable sectoral collective
bargaining, including the introduction of Fair Pay Agreements starting with (but not
limited) to social care; raising Statutory Sick Pay (SSP), and making it available all workers,
learning lessons from the Pandemic; repealing anti-trade union legislation which removes
workers' rights, including the Trade Union Act 2016 and any further restrictions brought in
by the current Government – including the Strikes (Minimum Service Levels) Bill, and
removing unnecessary restrictions on trade unions; simplifying the process of union
recognition; establishing trade unions' right of entry to workplaces to organise, meet and
represent their members and potential members, and to contact remote workers; ending
the presumption in favour of outsourcing and overseeing the biggest wave of insourcing of
public services for a generation, and using procurement to promote high standards,
choosing to do business with companies that treat their workers well, recognise trade
unions and have provision for collective bargaining arrangements and fair wages clauses;
tackling discrimination and workplace inequalities, including statutory rights for trade
union equality reps; action to close pay gaps, including permitting equal pay comparisons
across employers, and including outsourced workers in gender pay gap reporting, and
mandatory ethnicity pay gap reporting; and making it easier to balance work with home,
community and family life, with paid family and carers' leave and a new day one right to
flexible working.
A Labour Government will sign the New Deal for Working People into law in full within 100
days of taking office