Five Largest Business Groups Launch Attack on ‘Deeply Damaging’ Rayner Employment Bill – Guido Fawkes

Five Largest Business Groups Launch Attack on ‘Deeply Damaging’ Rayner Employment Bill

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The UK’s five biggest business groups are this morning staging an intervention against Rayner’s Employment Rights (Union) Bill. The British Chambers of Commerce, Confederation of British Industry, Institute of Directors, Federation of Small Businesses and Make UK say the bill will “damage growth and employment, undermining the government’s own goals.” Rare for them to come together like this…

The groups add in a letter to the DBT that “our collective position is that… the Bill will have deeply damaging implications for the government’s priority growth mission as well as their admirable focus on tackling rising economic inactivity,” and “taken together, [the policies are] a recipe for damaging, not raising livings standards.” Guido has already spelt out how the bill has been enhanced to boost union powers even further…

In terms of action they are “calling upon the Lords to fully scrutinise and improve this legislation to ensure it is genuinely both pro-business and pro-worker, and to prevent unnecessary harm to employment and growth.” Better to bin it altogether…