St. George’s Day on 23 April St. Andrew’s Day on 30 November St. David’s Day on 1 March, and St. Patrick’s Day on 17 March.
The Labour party leader is reported as saying that for years, Britain’s workers haven’t had a proper pay rise, with wages for most people still below 2007 level. And that after seven years of austerity our workers deserve a break and they will have the opportunity of four or more days off a year under a Labour government.
Mr Corbyn also said that he would ask for the support of the governments of Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland so that the same four holidays can be enjoyed a cross the United Kingdom to bring our country closer together.
CIPP comment This plan is likely to be popular with individuals; however businesses may not have the same perspective as it will be down to them to fund and administer the additional time off.
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Labour plans to transform the workplace 3 May 2017
The Labour party’s plan includes giving ‘all’ workers the same rights at work from day one and doubling paid paternity leave.
According to the report from Politics Home , ‘all’ workers incudes part-time and temporary staff.
Initiatives under Labour’s 20 point plan include banning zero-hours contracts and unpaid internships.
Labour has also promised to scrap the 1% cap on NHS staff’s pay rises. Public sector staff had their pay frozen for two years from 2010 and then had pay rises capped at 1% in every year since 2012.
Previous reports have said that a Labour pay rise for public sector staff could be financed by an increase in corporation tax and restoring the 50p top rate of income tax.
CIPP comment We await the publication of all party political manifestos to see exactly what changes could be a reality, all dependant of course on which new government takes the reigns from 8 June.
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Finance Bill massively reduced due to snap election 27 April 2017
Until at least after the General Election, several government initiatives are being dropped from the Finance Bill.
The Chartered Institute of Taxation (CIOT) wrote to the Chancellor warning of the risks of rushing through a large number of tax changes without thorough parliamentary scrutiny.
“Following the announcement of a snap election on June 8th the timetable for Finance Bill 2017 will inevitably be truncated. Rather than the expected two days of House of Commons debate and 14-20 standing committee sessions, plus two days of report stage and third reading debate, precedent suggests that the committee and report stages will be compressed into a single day.
At 762 pages the current Finance Bill is the longest on record.
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