90% of The Cabinet Has Hired Staff Using Work Practices Labour Wants to Ban

90% of The Cabinet Has Hired Staff Using Work Practices Labour Wants to Ban

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It’s not just a few Labour MPs using employment practices the party wants to ban through its “Make Work Pay” push. If you trawl through job adverts for Cabinet Ministers it turns out that almost all of them have specifically violated their own stated policy on employment rights and “insecure work.” One rule for them as usual…

• 16 Cabinet Ministers including Reeves, Cooper, Miliband, and Lammy have hired roles which include working outside of regular hours and on the weekend. SpAds and staffers will be furious they don’t have the “Right to Switch Off”…
• 7 Cabinet Ministers including Rayner, Streeting and Kendall have hired on “insecure” fixed-term contracts.
• 6 Cabinet Ministers including Lammy, McFadden, and Darren Jones, have hired with long probation periods. The bête noire of Labour’s employment rights plans…

Dodds, Hermer, and Angela Smith are the only Cabinet Ministers who haven’t hired using these nefarious practices. That’s 86% of the Cabinet. It’s almost like arbitrary restrictions on voluntary working arrangements are a bad idea…