Organisation: First talks on Labour’s plans

Angela Raynor, Deputy Prime Minister and Business Secretary, convened a meeting with trade unions and business leaders in a meeting on 14th August 2024. Senior representatives from TUC, GMB, Usdaw, UNSION, Unite and Prospect, and major business representative organisations, including Make UK, IoD and CBI, were invited to contribute to the Government’s Plan to Make Work Pay and discussion of the Employment Rights Bill.

Labour’s plan is to support more people to stay in work, make work more family friendly, and improve living standards, putting more money in people’s pockets to spend, boosting economic growth, resilience and conditions for innovation.

UNISON general secretary Christina McAnea said: “Britain’s problems are best solved when governments, unions and businesses work together. The fair pay agreement promised in care will rejuvenate recruitment in a sector that’s long struggled to hold on to the workers needed to support an ageing population.”

Tina McKenzie, Policy Chair at The Federation of Small Businesses (FSB), said: “The new administration must listen to the real needs of small businesses on the ground and help, not harm, small business efforts to get people into work and secure the high levels of growth the country desperately needs.”