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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Jasper Jolly

Delaying new law ‘gives green light to rogue employers’, says TUC

A demonstration against the dismissal of P and O workers at the Port of Liverpool.
A demonstration against the dismissal of P&O Ferries workers at the Port of Liverpool. Photograph: Peter Byrne/PA

Britain’s top union leader has written to the business secretary, Kwasi Kwarteng, to warn the government that dropping plans to legislate for tougher employment rights after mass sackings at P&O Ferries would “side with bad bosses”.

Frances O’Grady, the general secretary of the Trades Union Congress, said the UK needed urgent “proper legislation” through an employment bill promised by ministers more than two years ago but repeatedly delayed.

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