The House of Representatives supported two significant private members’ bills on Friday this week. These must do with parents’ rights to paid maternity leave. As well as the right of hospitality employees to accept gratuities from patrons. However, two government bills that assaulted employees’ rights to a good, secure, and respected working life completely eclipsed these initiatives.
The Restructured European Law Bill will restore the EU prior to Brexit. It didn’t apply to everyone in EU legislation. But, primarily to rules that were put in place in accordance with the European Union Act of 1972.
Although some of these rights may save from extinction through the government thanks to the Bill. All of these rights will naturally expire at the end of December. The administration has not stated if or to what degree this ability going to use. Which is part of the dispute surrounding the Bill. Future paid holidays are now Grant Shapps’ responsibility.
Therefore, if such a strike is illegal, all strikers will no longer save themselves from unjust dismissal. Meaning that employees would get punished for a union error for those who are not to blame. Additionally, it will put the union at risk of restraining orders and damage claims.
As a result, there is a potential that the union’s assets may freeze. However, it could face costly penalties and could face contempt of court actions.
The Retained EU Law Bill and the Strikes Bill continue the totalitarian route that started through Johnson, Truss, and Sunak. And they are an insult to democracy and the law.
The Police, Crime, Justice, and Courts Act just made political protests illegal this year. With voter ID, the Voting Act will deny voting rights to millions of people. The Judiciary Review and Court Act restrict the court’s ability to overturn illegal government action.
Just a fool would believe that these actions would be the final solution. The assaults will go on. The Daily Mail published Shapps’s call for more limitations earlier this year. The Civil Contingencies Act of 2004 was one of them, providing for the banning of strikes.
The latter would make it possible to enact laws that would make calling, organizing, and joining a strike illegal. From an unofficial strike prohibition, all of this is a small step. Stopping the assaults on democracy is necessary.
The rights of employees must get preserved. Restrictive government action is necessary.
