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MPs demand stronger UK Employment Rights Bill: mandatory modern slavery statements, regulation of umbrella companies, clear zero-hours rules, worker-status reform and a properly resourced Fair Work Agency

Published on: 05 March 2025

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Business and Trade Committee—Make Work Pay: Employment Rights Bill (Third Report of Session 2024–24, HC 370)

The government should “speed up, not stall” its programme to clarify employment status, mandate modern slavery statements, and tackle pay shortfalls linked to “umbrella” companies, the Business and Trade Committee has urged. The report also calls for sanctions where organisations fail to publish their modern slavery statements, and to “name and shame” employers that do not comply with a proposed duty to set out a plan to narrow their gender pay gap. Measures to curb zero-hours contracts must be very precisely set out in regulations “as soon as possible” to give employers legal certainty and to prevent avoidance by engaging agency labour or nominally self-employed contractors instead, the committee said. It added that the Bill lacks provisions to ensure the proposed Fair Work Agency is properly resourced, and measures to stop the UK becoming a “dumping ground” for goods made with forced labour that tougher regimes do not currently accept...

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