Employment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2017
Public bill · Government · Presented
It would make employers give new workers their key job terms within five days, instead of leaving them waiting for up to two months, and it creates penalties for failing to do so or giving false information. It also aims to curb zero-hour work practices, guarantee a minimum payment when people are called in but not given work, and let workers on very low-hour contracts seek “banded hours” that better match the hours they actually work. It further strengthens protection for workers who use their employment rights so they cannot be punished for doing so.
Formal long title
Bill entitled an Act to provide for a requirement that employers provide employees with certain terms of employment within a certain period after commencing employment; to impose sanctions for certain offences; to further provide for a minimum payment due to employees in certain circumstances; to prohibit contracts specifying zero as the contract hours in certain circumstances and to provide for the introduction of banded contract hours; to further provide for prohibition of penalisation and for those purposes to amend the Terms of Employment (Information) Act 1994 and the Organisation of Working Time Act 1997; to amend the Workplace Relations Act 2015; and to provide for related matters
Last updated 25 October 2019
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