{"id":597600,"date":"2025-11-27T17:54:13","date_gmt":"2025-11-27T17:54:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/597600\/"},"modified":"2025-11-27T17:54:13","modified_gmt":"2025-11-27T17:54:13","slug":"labour-ditches-day-one-protection-from-unfair-dismissal-in-u-turn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/597600\/","title":{"rendered":"Labour ditches day-one protection from unfair dismissal in U-turn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ministers&#8217; decision to move to a six-month waiting period followed talks with business groups and unions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Trades Union Congress (TUC) welcomed the news, adding the &#8220;absolute priority now is to get these rights \u2013 like day one sick pay &#8211; on the statute book so that working people can start benefitting from them from next April.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">TUC General Secretary Paul Nowak called on the House of Lords to &#8220;respect Labour&#8217;s manifesto mandate&#8221; and ensure the legislation was passed as soon as possible.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Conservatives called the U-turn &#8220;humiliating&#8221; but added that the legislation was &#8220;still not fit-for-purpose&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Keir Starmer must grow a backbone, stand up to his union paymasters and ditch every single job-destroying anti-growth measure in the employment rights bill now,&#8221; added shadow business secretary Andrew Griffith.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ministers&#8217; decision to move to a six-month waiting period followed talks with business groups and unions. The Trades&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":597601,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[13,12,14],"class_list":{"0":"post-597600","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-stories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115622947154474258","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597600","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=597600"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597600\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/597601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=597600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=597600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=597600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}