Delivering the new deal for working people August 2024

The party has touted the programme as the beginning of a new settlement that will place the needs of workers at the centre of the labour market, boasting a broad package of policies such as raising the minimum wage to a real living wage, introducing a ‘Right to Switch Off’ and ending one-sided flexibility by banning ‘exploitative zero hour contracts’.1 Even taken alone, many of these policies prom. [...] the NDFWP still Included in this paper are fresh polling results represents the largest that speak to the more popular elements of the overhaul of labour NDFWP, the elements that are not included but market regulations in a perhaps should be and the trust in the government generation. [...] In the main document outlining the NDFWP, the party promises to emulate similar models to those implemented already in Ireland and Belgium, ‘giving workers and employers the opportunity to have constructive conversations and work together on bespoke The problem, however, workplace policies or contractual terms that benefit is that giving employers both parties’.9 the power to decide the terms of t. [...] The problem, however, is that giving employers the power to decide the terms of the policy will in many cases dilute the potential benefits for workers and the scale of its implementation. [...] Outside of the formal care sector, the government must also introduce paid carers’ leave for unpaid carers.26 The first step the government can take to improve conditions in the care sector is to ban zero-hour contracts - a proposal that the government has pledged to implement across the labour market.