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Taxpayers were landed with a £10 million bill yesterday to compensate workers unlawfully sacked from failed electrical retailer Comet.
The staggering amount strengthened voices calling for changes in the law to stop the public picking up the tab for bungling businesses.
More than 6,000 workers lost their jobs when the firm collapsed in 2012 as administrators Deloitte shut 185 stores and distribution centres.
The unions are unhappy with the Employment Rights Act 2025 and with good reason. KEITH EWING and Lord JOHN HENDY KC take a close look at why the Bill promised more than it delivered
Employment lawyer ALICE BOWMAN warns ‘day one rights’ include an undefined ‘initial period’ and the zero-hours contract fixes create baffling fixed-term loopholes. If the Bill doesn’t work properly and deliver, Labour is doomed
The Bill addresses some exploitation but leaves trade unions heavily regulated, most workers without collective bargaining coverage, and fails to tackle the balance of power that enables constant mutation of bad practice, write KEITH EWING and LORD JOHN HENDY KC
Incoming Usdaw general secretary JOANNE THOMAS talks to Ben Chacko about workers’ rights, Labour and how to arrest the decline of the high street