Angela Rayner to lay amendment to speed up workers’ rights bill

Rayner will argue that because the new compromise is simply shortening the current system, it does not need consultation and thus the change must be implemented much faster. Photograph: Murdo MacLeod/The Guardian

The former deputy prime minister Angela Rayner will lay an amendment on Wednesday to speed up the workers rights’ bill, after “considerable anger” that unelected Lords forced the watering down of day-one rights.

The amendment would mean the new shorter qualifying period is in place by early next year.