Category: Rayner

  • Rayner clashes with business secretary over reforms to workers’ rights

    Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner is at odds with Business Secretary Jonathan Reynolds over plans to give workers full employment rights from day one on the job, as concerns grow among businesses about the impact of the proposed reforms. The dispute centres on how probationary periods will work under the…

  • Rayner signals potential delays to key employment reforms

    Angela Rayner has indicated that some elements of her planned reform of workers’ rights could be delayed, in a setback for union leaders. At a key meeting at the Cabinet Office in Whitehall, the deputy prime minister told union and business lobby representatives that “not everything” initially proposed would be…

  • Rayner signals potential delays to key employment reforms

    Angela Rayner has indicated that some elements of her planned reform of workers’ rights could be delayed, in a setback for union leaders. At a key meeting at the Cabinet Office in Whitehall, the deputy prime minister told union and business lobby representatives that “not everything” initially proposed would be…