Unions issue warning on holiday pay
Holiday pay rights for millions of workers could be weakened if regulations are introduced to reduce rights at work stemming from EU law, unions are warning.
The TUC claimed that up to 3.5 million workers are at risk of being left worse off if ministers “meddle” with holiday pay.
The union organisation said the Government was preparing to introduce regulations reducing rights at work which stem from EU law.
The law ensures that most holiday is paid in line with workers’ normal earnings, including regular overtime and bonuses, but if changes are made, companies would only have to cover basic pay, said the TUC.
TUC general secretary Paul Nowak said: “The plan to meddle with the way holiday pay is calculated and could see millions of grafters who do regular overtime worse off when they take holiday.
“This would be a huge blow to working people in every corner of the country.
“The last thing they need is less money when they take a well-earned break.
“Ministers must protect working people’s holiday pay and ditch these plans without delay.
“Working people are already working around the clock to make ends meet and too many are exhausted.”
A Government spokesperson said: “This is scaremongering. The Government will publish its response to this consultation next week, but throughout this process we have been consistently clear that we will uphold our strong track record on workers’ rights.”
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Working people need a much better deal than they’ve been getting for the past two decades. We need to fight back to protect holiday pay, but reform must go much further. Please no codswallop about ‘we can’t afford it’, at least until you’ve researched the returns to shareholders and managers! It is timely to reconsider the cases for all penal rates. Overtime and shift allowances, for example, need to reflect the negative impact on family life and personal time of excessive work hours. We must reduce working hours across the board. For example, I favour 21 hours plus 5h ‘community… Read more »
Penal rates?
Millionaire/billionaire with tax loop holes off shore non Dom clever accountants, sure the Tory party will look after you. But the people that make you this rich, the Tory party will squeeze for every penny to keep them down so you can keep your billionaire lifestyle (and more importantly keep funding the Conservative party).
The Tory Shareholder-Landlord alliance claiming they care about workers?
Centuries of overwhelming historical evidence to the contrary would suggest otherwise.
Tories have a strong track record of attacks on workers rights since 1979. Richie Sunak and this spokesperson are liars. The Working class in Wales who voted for brexit are idiots if they did not realise the tories would use leaving the EU to dismantle the few workers rights that we have left. We all pay the price for their political ingorance and stupidity of the working class in Wales and England who voted for brexit. Don’t they realise tories only care about the rich.