Following Brexit, the government have stated that they will not only maintain UK workers rights but enhance them.
The Good Work Plan devised by Matthew Taylor, the chief executive for the royal society of arts and previous policy adviser to Tony Blair.
After a two year long review, the results are here.
What does the good work plan mean for employers?
Here are the main takeaways from the government’s Good Work Plan:
Right to request a stable contract
Did you know, 12% of British workers work between 1-19 hours a week?
This legislation will introduce a right for workers to request a fixed working pattern after 26 weeks of service.
Which means workers who have been in employment for half a year will now have legal backing to secure working hours.
Change to the quality of work
Quality is a subjective term and differs between everyone.
Quality could mean higher pay or climbing the company ladder.
To help employers, they’ve summed it up with these five principles:
Satisfaction – Providing better jobs, be this through better communication, pay, benefits packages.
Participation and progression – The government are planning to display job quality data on job sites, to improve people’s ability to find the right job.
Wellbeing, safety and security – Encourage a healthy workplace by adopting “the core standards”, the framework for mental health at work plan, promoting open conversation and at the same time, reducing stigma.
Fair Pay – Besides boosting the national living wage in April 2019; the government is looking to put an end to low pay, although this policy isn’t finished as of this publication.
Voice and autonomy – This goes hand in hand with allowing employees to engage with the business. Weekly, quarterly meetings. If there’s restructures and the like. Currently, the legislation requires 10% of employees to request a meeting. New legislation will lower this threshold to 2% although, a 15 employee threshold remains.
Day One Written Statement
Before we explain the day one written statement, it’s important to understand whom this applies.
The government splits employment status into three categories:
- Employees: Regular, standard workers whether they are full time or on a fixed contract.
- Workers: Casual workers hired on a job by job basis. Think your temp workers and contractors.
- Self-employed: self-explanatory, they run and manage their own business.
The current practice (which excludes workers) states that employees who’ve worked with an employer for longer than a month need a written statement covering details of their employment contract and rights. They must receive this within two months.
To encourage this new quality of work the government will be introducing legislation to extend this right to workers and employees, granting access to this written statement a day one right.
Apart from the standard content e.g. sick leave, pay. New expansions to the written statement include (not limited to the following):
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Well, that’s our takeaway from the good work plan.
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