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Where next?
Hannah ReedSenior Employment Rights
Officer
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• Campaigning to stop attacks on worker rights
• Effective workplace organisation
• Pressing for change
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Government’s employment rights agenda
• Making it easier for employers to sack people
• Making it harder for workers to enforce their rights
• Weakening restructuring rights
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Weaker dismissal rights
• Extending qualifying period for unfair dismissal from 12 months to 2 years– More than 3 million people lose out– Young and BME workers
particularly affected• Reduced compensatory awards in
UD claims• Disadvantage part time / low paid
employees; older workers
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Fees for ET users: limiting access to justice
Type of claim Issue claim
Hearing fee
Total
Level 1: NMW, Wages Act, holiday pay, time off rights
£160 £230 £390
Level 2: unfair dismissal; discrimination; equal pay
£250 £950 £1200
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Priced out of justice: Fees for ETs
• Remission scheme limited - many workers on NMW wages will have to pay fees
• For some ET fees = significant proportion / exceed the value of their claim
* Seta Findings 2008; ** ET & EAT Stats 2011-12
Type of claim Median award
Total fee if claim goes to hearing
Wages Act £850* £390
Unfair dismissal £4,560** £1,200
Race discrimination £5,256**
8% success rate
£1,200
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Weaker collective redundancy rights
• Shorter consultation periods: 45 days where 100+ employees at risk
• Excluding fixed term contract staff
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TUPE
• Some service sector workers may lose TUPE rights– Low paid women / BME workers in
cleaning and catering sectors• Increased uncertainty and increased job
insecurity• Increased flexibility for employers to vary
pay and conditions after a transfer– Erosion of pay and conditions– Increased inequality
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Stop employee wrongsTUC Campaign
http://stopemploymentwrongs.org
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Effective workplace organisation
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Settlement agreements
• Encouraging employers to use the offer a settlement agreement to end the employment relationship
• Without need for disciplinary procedure
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Negotiated settlements?
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Pressing for change
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Pressing for change
• Fair Pay
• Protecting outsourced workers
• Reducing casualisation
• Building strong unions