What is in the new Employment Rights Bill?

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. – Bringing together the various agencies and bodies that enforce employment rights into a new Fair Work Agency, described as a simplified and strengthened system to protect workers and ensure justice in the workplace. – Multiple measures will be brought forward to protect workers from dismissal and blacklisting for trade union activity, ensure workers understand their right to join a trade union, to simplify the statutory recognition process, and bring in a new right of access for union officials to meet, represent, recruit and organise members in workplaces. – Require large employers to produce action plans on how to address gender pay gaps and support employees through the menopause, as well as strengthening rights for pregnant workers and new mothers. – “It will raise the minimum floor of employment rights, raise living standards across the country and provide better support for those businesses who are engaged in good practices.”