You've been warned.

I dunno,

I quite like the idea of a year's paternity leave for men. Seems a bit sexist and discriminatory that men only get 2 weeks. Beyond that 2 weeks isn't a lot of time for the woman to recover from the birth and be back on her feet to cope with being on her own with a baby all day. 

Better than that extend it to two years. the WHO recommend Breastfeeding up to two years. Bit difficult to do when you've got to go back to work after 1 year.

Minimum 5% pension employer contribution minimum 10% overall- 3% isn't enough. 5% employer 5% employee would actually give people sensible retirement pots. 

Maximum 6 month probation periods with full rights to recourse for unfair dismissal etc after that point. The whole idea of having to wait 2 years before you gain full employee rights is ridiculous and some unscrupulous employers take advantage of that. 

Minimum notice must work both ways. Many employers insist you give them more notice than they give you - crazy. If you must give them 3 months notice then they should be made to give you 3 months notice. 

Restrictive covenants - Eliminate covenants that restrict you from getting another job. I actually had an employer who said I couldn't work in a related industry for 6 months even if they terminated my contact (where they only had to give 1 month). That shouldn't be legal. Either restrictions shouldn't be allowed or the employer should be required to continue to pay you full during any period of restriction. 

Working time directive - Employers shouldn't be allowed to 'ask you' to opt out as part of the recruitment process. Their should either be no opt out, or the opt out should only be on the table following successful completion of the probation period so employees don't feel pressured to do so. 

That's just a couple of things off the top of my head. If I gave it some thought there would be others I'm sure. Has Starmer actually given it any thought and set out some specifics. If he hasn't I'd be pressuring him to actually set out some definitive commitments before I'd believe him - and to be able to hold him to account later. 
 

I don't quite like the idea of paying for that.




Indeed, which is why they shouldn't have to bear the tax burden of paying for unionised snout in trough lazy bastard strikers to hold the country to ransom.

I don't care

You are a headache with your persistent nonsense and exaggerations on mass immigration and low pay, job losses, zero hour contracts etc. The true cause of all of these problems is CAPITALISM. And you are unlikely to change the system especially if voting Conservative.

The Bosses determine pay rates, zero hour contracts and who they employ, the government determines the level of immigration. If you want change kick a few Conservative arses, instead of whinging on here. Remember the Tories have dominated parliament in this country, it seems forever.

EDIT: I'm not against Capitalism per se.

Maybe, schemes to give workers more shares in the companies they work for. If you are an employee, you won't use the voting right your share gives you to vote for your company to move to Malaysia just because your product can be made cheaper there. Of course, the workers having that sort of control over the means of production smacks of Marxism, so you lot will be opposed to it either way.

Yeah, I don't suppose many workers would show up to vote on whether their company should move their jobs to Malaysia, either. It's a lot of fuss.

Well, if you don't support such a scheme, you've no right to moan when companies move their production abroad. There's a way to stop it. It's a bit lefty, though.