UK Tones Down Worker ‘Right to Switch Off’ Demands on Firms. Labour government plans a code of conduct instead of laws. Provisions were at the heart of Labour’s appeal to workers.

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  7. Do you get it yet? This is what Labour do. They lie and then disappoint. Every time.

  8. This labour government has more watering down than your average privatised water company!

  10. Hey!

    It’s not flip flops

    It’s Sir Flip Flops.

    An it’s chaynge

    With Aynge.

    Gettit!.

    😂😂😂

  11. Why am I so completely unsurprised by this.

    Thank you for making the SNP’s job that much easier.

  12. But I was told once Labour got into power, they’d stop emulating the tories?

    Embarrassing our political party that’s meant to be for workers and promotes itself as that can’t even properly protect workers rights.

  13. Why is this even being discussed as not being a law?

    You are paid to work during work hours. Outside those hours you are not working so you have a right to switch off. If you don’t want to exercise that right then it should be your choice and your choice alone.

    When doing standard roles which pay from 25-45 then you should absolutely not be working extra time unpaid which is what this is, maybe at the top end on very rare occasions.

    When you get to the 45-50+ range then there is some expectation of availability and flexibility. It goes with the job. I’ve done it but that also goes both ways as you also get a lot of flexibility. The thing is though you are are a point now where you can quit and walk into another job easily so they don’t take the piss. That’s the key to all this. This law is for people on 25k getting shit out of hours when they shouldn’t and a law to stop it from happening. I’ve had low paid jobs where managers thought they could they take the piss but it’s phone off and fuck off. Not everyone is like me though and that’s why we need these laws. Tory-Lite Labour are becoming more of a joke every day.

  14. Maybe just doing the right thing would be a vote winner for Labour but nope. Diet Tory as per usual.

  15. Who would of thought flaming anas and family were going to protect workers rights? Its a burning issue.

  16. As someone who’s never worked in a job where they’ve had to contact me ‘out of hours’…. What happens if you have a work phone which gets switched off after 5pm?

  18. We know. No one in Scotland is surprised by this move by The Red Tories.

  19. ‘The West’ (as in, the UK and US political industrial complexes) has seen a worrying shift over the last 10 years or so: No cunt remembers when they’ve lied to or duped, they just seem to latch on to three-word catchphrases (Yes We Can, MAGA / Build the Wall / Lock Her Up, Get Brexit Done, Oven Ready Deal, Stop the Boats etc) and within a few weeks or months none of it matters because no cunt remembers; they’re already exhausted from the constant news feed that all they know is the next Big Thing.

    All Labour had to do, after the population seeing all the horrible things that have happened to OUR society over the last 14 years and still voted for Conservative, is throw out some vague bullshit. But having seen what the country has repeatedly voted for, they’ve clocked on to how to win votes, which (as a marker of society) has been to pull to the Right.

    The Tories self destructed after a cycle, as per the usual script therefore creating the illusion of ‘change’, but nothing ever fucking changes and now the Political Class know more about how to fool people then ever before, and we see it in real time.

    Whoever believed their bullshit is complicit in it, the same as it’s been for decades now.

  20. Not to be boringly factual, but this was never part of the Labour manifesto in the first place, so I’m not sure what they are trying to claim is being watered down here?

    The green papers that discussed it prior to the election always envisaged it as some sort of code of practice rather than a legal right. The only references to it being a legal right tended to be in the Daily Mail, Telegraph etc as ‘scare stories’ for their readers (who they presumably thought would be up in arms at the idea). But it wasn’t part of the manifesto either way.

    You can argue it should be a legal right if you want – that’s perfectly fair (though how workable it would be is perhaps a different matter). But that’s never been what Labour have been proposing, as far as I can tell.

  21. Just wait until Labour get a sniff of power in Scotland, oh boy

  22. I suppose it goes without saying, but fuck the “labour” party. Corporate whores offering breadcrumbs to the proles, but pissing on them before they toss them in the trough.

  23. The former party of the workers are just a right of centre political party that the middle classes have voted for whilst the Tories & Reform decide on terms of merging.

  24. What would this mean in effect with a code of conduct rather than laws ?

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