{"id":597671,"date":"2025-11-27T18:44:23","date_gmt":"2025-11-27T18:44:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/597671\/"},"modified":"2025-11-27T18:44:23","modified_gmt":"2025-11-27T18:44:23","slug":"uk-government-softens-workers-rights-bill-after-business-pushback","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/597671\/","title":{"rendered":"UK government softens workers&#8217; rights bill after business pushback"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">LONDON (Reuters) -Britain will scale back plans \u200bto give employees protection against \u200cunfair dismissal from day one, reducing \u200cthe qualifying period to six months instead of two years, the government said on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">The change follows \u2060talks with \u200ctrade unions and business groups and removes the last major \u200dhurdle for the Employment Rights Bill to pass into law.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">Ministers said the \u200bcompromise was a &#8220;workable \u200cpackage&#8221; that would allow reforms to proceed on schedule, including day-one rights to sick pay and paternity leave from April 2026 \u2060and the launch \u200bof a Fair Work \u200bAgency.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">Business groups had warned that day-one dismissal rights could \u200ddeter hiring,\u2060 while the bill has been a flagship pledge for Labour \u2060since last year&#8217;s election.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">(Reporting \u200cby Sam Tabahriti; Editing \u200cby Kirsten Donovan)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LONDON (Reuters) -Britain will scale back plans \u200bto give employees protection against \u200cunfair dismissal from day one, reducing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":597672,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[748,52586,393,4884,1144,712,16,187792,15,1764],"class_list":{"0":"post-597671","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uk","8":"category-united-kingdom","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-employment-rights","11":"tag-england","12":"tag-great-britain","13":"tag-northern-ireland","14":"tag-scotland","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-unfair-dismissal","17":"tag-united-kingdom","18":"tag-wales"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115623143957381076","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597671","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=597671"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597671\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/597672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=597671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=597671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=597671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}