Found: therefore positively correlated with a lower risk of poverty and emphasis on job quality through the Employment Bill

Found: highly concerned that the Protected Paternity or Parental Partner leave amendment tabled for the Employment Bill

Found: develop a wider standards strategy to achieve the objectives of the Make Work Pay strategy and Employment Bill

Found: When the Employment Bill was published in September 2024 we identified a number of areas that would

Found: Rights Bill delivers only partially on a key pledge of the Labour manifesto, which promised an employment bill

Found: consider other options to reform employment status and look at how it might work alongside other employment bill

Found: Despite promises1 to introduce an employment bill to tackle labour market exploitation, the previous

Found: The CIPD has previously called for an Employment Bill that can update employment law to better reflect

Found: Written submission from Fairwork (ERB0029) 1 POLICY BRIEF An Employment Bill for Workers in the Digital

Found: We note that the previous Government repeatedly promised an Employment Bill but failed to bring one

Found: Business and Trade Committee - Employment Bill Consultation 1 Business & Trade Select Committee:

Found: Hugo Martin: We have supported the employment Bill virtually in its entirety.

Found: Because we have taken a progressive approach to our employment policies, the employment Bill does not

Found: views on the potential additional pressures that some of these businesses might face with the employment Bill

Found: achievement, but given that all of those workers in those insecure jobs had been promised an employment Bill

Found: government.59 Mr Reynolds began by criticising the Conservatives for not having brought forward an employment bill

Found: government.59 Mr Reynolds began by criticising the Conservatives for not having brought forward an employment bill

Found: The Employment Bill 10.

Found: When the Employment Bill was published in September 2024 we identified a number of areas that would impact

Found: The CIPD has previously called for an Employment Bill that can update employment law to better reflect

Found: Trades Union Congress Regular catch up with General Secretary, to discuss Make Work Pay and the Employment Bill

Found: Review and recommend changes regarding the impact of the new Employment Bill Q4 Required changes to

Found: ability to innovate. 15 In the medium term as discussed in the going concern disclosure, the Employment Bill

Found: In the medium term as discussed in the going concern disclosure, the Employment Bill 2024 has announced

Found: If we were considering an open-ended delegated power in, say, an Employment Bill allowing Ministers

Found: In the absence of a UK Employment Bill on workers’ rights coming forward, Dr Hann also pointed to voluntary

Found: However, we have urged the UK Government to bring forward an Employment Bill that not only establishes

Found: market enforcement agency Recommendations: We have urged the UK Government to bring forward an Employment Bill

Found: become a thing of the past as provision has been made in the Small Business, Enterprise and Employment Bill

Question

What assessment has the Minister made of the impact that the increase in minimum wage to £11.44 will have on tackling poverty?

Answered by Minister for Social Justice and Chief Whip

The UK Government’s decision to implement the recommendations of the Low Pay Commission and increase the National Living Wage and National Minimum Wage is the least we would expect.

Whilst this increase will make a difference to the lowest paid workers, it will not end poverty pay.  The National Living Wage and National Minimum Wage continues to lag behind the Real Living Wage, which is independently calculated to reflect the cost of living more accurately.

We also know there are persistent issues with enforcement of the National Living Wage and National Minimum Wage across the UK.  In 2019, the UK Government promised an Employment Bill and the establishment of a Single Enforcement Body to clamp down on non-compliance, instead many workers continue to be underpaid a minimum hourly rate they are entitled to.

Question

What assessment has the Welsh Government made of the number of employees who were unfairly dismissed when COVID-19 furlough payments came to an end?

Answered by Minister for Economy

The Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme (JRS) was a UK Government scheme administered by HM Revenue and Customs and unfair dismissal falls under UK employment law.  I understand the latest UK Government release of Employment Tribunal and Employment Appeal Tribunal data is for the period to March 2021, well before the end of the JRS. 

I am concerned we will see a rise in unfair dismissal cases.  We continue to call upon the UK Government to stop stalling on its promised Employment Bill, establish the Single Enforcement Body and provide all workers with the employment rights and protections they deserve.  

Question

Will the Minister outline what progress has been made in implementing the recommendations in the Fair Work Commission’s report?

Answered by Deputy Minister for Social Partnership

We are using the powers, policy levers and influence we have to progress the recommendations of the Fair Work Commission, whilst recognising the world of work continues to change.  

We established the Social Care Fair Work Forum and its associated working groups which seek to improve working conditions in social care.  Delivering the Forum is a key recommendation of the Fair Work Commission and we are using it to inform our approach to delivering our commitment to pay social care workers the Real Living Wage.  

Workplace health and safety has been radically altered by coronavirus and we responded to this by creating the national Health and Safety Forum.  This has brought together trade unions, the main employer bodies and the relevant enforcement agencies to share their work and collective experience in helping to keep workplaces safe.  

We have teamed up with our social partners to deliver a campaign to strengthen knowledge and understanding of workplace rights and responsibilities. Linking into the campaign, our work with Acas has seen them deliver additional free digital briefing sessions for employers and workers in Wales.  This picks up on key recommendations to improve knowledge of rights, the ability of workers to pursue their rights, and to work with UK agencies and others on the same.  

Working across the Welsh Government, we are using levers such as the Economic Contract and the Code of Practice on Ethical Employment in Supply Chains to encourage fair work practices.  We are strengthening the social partnership approach as a key mechanism through which we can make workplaces fairer, safer and better for all.  We have consulted widely on a draft Social Partnership and Public Procurement Bill, which, if passed, will introduce new social partnership, socially responsible procurement and fair work duties. 

Finally, in line with the Fair Work Commission recommendations to influence in the non-devolved space, we continue to call on the UK Government to bring forward its promised Employment Bill and to commit additional resources to enforcement, so that workers have the statutory rights and protections they deserve. 

Found: The taskforce published a draft AI and Employment Bill in April 2024 and lobby for its incorporation

Found: announced in the Queen’s Speech that protection for EU workers’ rights will be included in an Employment Bill

Found: Small Business, Enterprise and Employment Bill................................... 2 2.2.