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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Jessica Elgot Deputy political editor

Downing Street vows to force employment rights bill through Lords

People walking to work in Manchester.
The amended bill promises to give workers protection against unfair dismissal after six months in the job. Photograph: Christopher Furlong/Getty Images

The government has vowed that there will be no more concessions on the employment rights bill and that it will force the Lords to vote on it again next week, after Conservative and cross-bench peers blocked it on Wednesday night.

Ministers and trade unions expressed fury that the bill was voted down again in the House of Lords by peers protesting against the lifting of the compensation cap for unfair dismissal, calling it “cynical wrecking tactics that risk a constitutional crisis”.

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