Conservative MPs Want to Scrap Workers’ Rights to Paid Holiday and Annual Leave

Conservative MPs Want to Scrap Workers’ Rights to Paid Holiday and Annual Leave



by birdinthebush74

42 comments

  1. I wouldn’t take this as any kind of truth given the source, but honestly, who cares what the conservatives think or want right now.

  2. I hope this will help further destroy their flimsy shreds of electability

  4. Keep talking guys. You need to keep reminding the public why you’re insane and unelectable!

  6. >The legislation would ensure that “employers to take all reasonable steps to prevent sexual harassment.”

    >Conservative frontbencher Greg Smith MP said in a recent committee debate on the bill: “We must question whether the benefits of these clauses will be outweighed by the burden on employers and, in certain respects, by the chilling impact on free speech.” He said he was concerned that employers would be burdened by having to “police that which most of us…would call more innocent banter.”

    Wouldn’t fancy working at his office, can’t imagine it’d be good if he’s going to bat for sex pests for whatever reason it may be.

  7. Like the working time directive they will try to dress this up like a good thing…maybe holidays are holding people back and stopping them from working to their hardest

  8. I wouldn’t be surprised if Reform wants the same given their incoming American overlords.

  9. If they’re talking about this then you can be pretty sure they’re probably going to use WfH as potential wedge issue between ‘metropolitan Labour’ and ‘council estate Labour’. They’ll also see it as something that might pull voters away from Reform.

  10. No shit, they’re tories. They’d bring back slavery if they thought they could get away with it.

  11. “Conservative MPs are also pushing to allow companies employing fewer than 500 people to unfairly sack staff within two years. 

    Their move states, in their own words: “This amendment would exclude employers with fewer than 500 employees from the removal of the qualifying period for the right not to be unfairly dismissed.”

    Crazy to come out saying you support unfair dismissal

  12. This is a great move. After banning woke sandwiches and woke Christmas romance films, woke holidays and woke paid annual leave are the next obvious targets.

  13. Full on fascism. “Please vote us, not Reform, promise we’ll fuck over the working class even harder. Look at these small boat crossings making up a whole 2% of all this migration hooha, that’s what we should take as cause for all our policy instead of, you know, literally everything else”.

  14. This is one of the reasons why the elites coerced the hard of thinking into voting for Brexit as they wanted to roll back some of the protections that the EU brought in and become more like the USA where they have ‘at will’ employment without any rights.

  15. You’d have thought that after being kicked from office they’d stop being cvnts and actually take stock

  16. Why do they get airtime, they aren’t in any policy making position

  17. There’s is no other explanation for voting for the Tories besides either “arsehole” or “simpleton.”

  19. Would love if we had our human rights protected by some kind of union of countries to help defend the masses from the few, the right wing right wing local politics.

  20. Question, I assume these Conservating MPs will also want to scrap their rights to paid holiday and annual leave too.

    Surely if we are to reduce the burden on the tax payer, improve the economy, innovation etc ….

    Yes?

    /s … I know the answer

  21. It doesn’t matter. The Conservatives will never hold power ever again.

  22. They aren’t ever going to be in power again. Reform is replacing them.

  23. When the fuck is this country going to stop being absolute drips and all just stop paying shit like council tax? They can’t arrest the whole fucking country.

  24. Of course they do, they just never thought they could get away with it until Brexit.

  25. Long term aim of Brexit finally being talked about.

  26. Hmmm yesss more discord among the populace based on their views and stance.

  27. It is likely bullshit but also sounds viable because tories hate almost anyone who isn’t a tory.

    Hell, they probably want us to pay to take time off.

  28. I don’t get holiday pay or sick pay… it’s miserable

  29. Great news. Why they still keep thinking like that they won’t be reelected.

  30. I don’t get it.
    Tax reduction for the rich, and sell it to us as trickle down economics. Sure I get the grift.
    But basic workers rights and benefits that makes our “world beating” wages remotely tolerable?

    Who is that for

  32. Well it’s a good thing the Conservatives are basically a dead party (for now) with no real power then, isn’t it?

  33. The conservatives look at the us federal government and think that’s the rule for all of the us. If you look at the wealthy/growth cities they have a lot of worker protections. 

  34. Is this party policy, or just a few of the nutty economic free marketeers being loud and silly? It’s not entirely clear from the article.

    I would hope and assume that no significant number of normal citizens would vote for a party with such a policy. And yes, that includes Reform.

  35. They’ve already gone on record as describing the minimum wage and maternity leave as unnecessary burdens on business so it’s hardly out of character.

  36. They want to increase productivity and they go and suggest this

    Laughably daft idea

  37. Another made up headline. There is no talk of removing paid holidays and leave

  38. I’d like to say “that even the Tories aren’t this stupid”… I’d like to say that.

  39. I’m sure I’ve heard this headline many many times since the 1990’s.

  40. The byline times is hardly a source of non bias reporting.

    It doesn’t matter what the Tories want, it’s just waffle they’ve no chance of stopping Labour getting anything through parliament

  41. I doubt the reporting is accurate. The WTD is now standard. It may be Labour’s amendments that Tories are actually challenging, such as WFH. an oxymoron phrase if ever there was one

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