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An Employment Bill, announced in the Queen’s Speech on 19^th December 2019, contains various proposals of interest to the HR professional.

As foreshadowed in the Conservative Party’s manifesto and various on-going consultations, the measures to be included in the draft Bill include the following:

• setting up a single enforcement body to protect workers’ rights
• ensuring tips left to workers go to them in full
• introducing a new right for all workers to request a more predictable contract
• extending redundancy protections to prevent pregnancy and maternity discrimination
• making flexible working the default position, unless employers can justify not offering it (subject to an as yet unpublished consultation)
• allowing parents to take extended leave for neonatal care, and
• introducing one week’s leave for unpaid carers

There is, as yet, no timetable for the Bill’s introduction.