And asset stripped. I would never wish poverty on anyone, but you deserve nothing more than the bare minimum if you believe you have a right to personal enrichment off the back of DELIBERATELY destroying the lives of others.
6:40 I work from home. You CANNOT look after a child at the same time. You STILL need childcare. I fear my work from home will get taken away because of that belief.
Perhaps it just takes away the need for childcare when you would have been commuting (which is an hour each way for many people) and working from home does allow more people to do the morning school run for example. But during the actual working hours yeah childcare is still needed.
The right to switch off should not be about stopping people from contacting each other after work hours - it's about allowing people to decide not to answer/engage in those discussions after hours without being reprimanded for it. I also think it should include the right not to use your personal hardware and number for work reasons, the number or companies I deal with that force you to provide your personal number and then contact you on it to discuss work - further still these is a major raise in installation of monitoring and work applications on personal devices.
I love working from home, it works well with my disabilities and im more productive because of it. I cant afford housing where my work is (got the job during lockdown, and have since gotten married, no longer living in my parents house), so travelling to work uses up a lot of my brain power before and after work...its exhausing.
Also, going into the office feels pointless if the rest of my team aren't there....I just end up sitting in a random space (therefore not consistent equipment), trying to be hear on a Teams call, while also trying not to be too loud and disturb others. Not ideal, when I could be having a better time at home, keeping my pets company.
I might be wrong, but I think under disability working from home qualifies as a reasonable adjustment. A former employer told me it was a flexible working request, but I don't think that was true, particularly as they later allowed me to work from home full time, down from 1day/week in the office (under flexible working request). Totally with you about how exhausting travelling to/from work can be, as well as dealing with the office environment.
@@cosmosnomad You're not wrong. It definitely could be a reasonable adjustment for a disability but you'd make that case based on the specific disability, the job, etc
Australia has/had a version of zero hours that i really liked when I lived there - Casual Work Contract. Ot was zero guaranteed hours, but you got other benefits that motivate the employer to give a proper contact. So where minimum wage was something like $14 an hour, on this casual work you got $20 min an hour. Also a set if other benefits - like you can cancel you shift up to an hour before atart time and not get fired or in trouble.
That makes some sense for me, I'm generally pretty wary of overregulating work (having worked in France, where you couldn't fire someone if they took a whizz on your desk), but it stands to reason that you should pay extra if you're requiring someone provide you an extra service (flexibility). It's kinda like doctors getting paid to be on call.
You do understand most of the businesses in the Uk are small working class businesses with small margins don’t you? You’re basically promoting wiping out working class business and jobs in local areas. But I wouldn’t expect anything less from the sheltered middle class audience of politics joe, communist in the afternoon, Waitrose shopper in the evening
@@CB-dl1vg well, if a business can’t afford to pay people enough to live near it, it shouldn’t be in business. Complete bollocks that taxes subsidise business by paying benefits to staff. But hey, you keep supporting the nobility mooching off the taxpayer while they swan around in private jets
@@CB-dl1vg Then is WFH not a win-win for both parties? Employee doesn't have to pay (with both their own time and money) to commute and employer doesn't need to pay fixed costs associated with an office building.
@@Prawny How are waitresses, waiters, mechanics, brick layers, plumbers, bar staff, factory workers, people working in the local chippy all going to work from home? Like I said, the politics joe audience is just a load of out of touch middle class posers.
I feel that hybrid working is the sweet spot. Team building in office days to keep social and some home working for the benefits of care and financial releif
Watching extroverted people who want their office job to be their social life / dating pool is super frustrsting. Dont derail my life because you want to play the sims at work. Just leave me be in peace. Just want to finish my tasks and chill.
Glad it's not just me. It's so infuriating watching Ava talk about her friend lamenting a remote first policy at a tech company... meanwhile I can guarantee you that 90% of the people actually working in TECH there (not just marketing) are absolutely loving it.
This whole bill is icing on a rotten cake. The basic social democratic consensus is long-gone but instead of restoring and enhancing it we get 'deckchairs on the Titanic'. I'm so fed up with unions being defensive and not staking out new genuine wins for workers like me. For example, what happened to the London minimum wage?
I'm a younger millenial and started a new job working from home during the pandemic. Absolutely adore my job and managed to get promoted at the first attempt as soon as I was eligible so it hasn't hindered career progression in the slightest. I chat to my co-workers every single day while WFH and it's genuinely productive chat, not the boring small talk that I used to get in my old workplaces. My organisation have since changed to a hybrid policy where I now have to go into the office once a month. There is no one in my entire division based at the same site as me. On my last office day, the ONLY person I spoke to all day was the barista when I bought my morning coffee. Whole day in the office surrounded by people and no one said a word, and it wasn't through a lack of trying on my part. That is a far more isolating and depressing experience than working from home could ever possibly be. The world of work has fundamentally changed and I will fight tooth and nail to keep WFH as my default option
Sounds a bit like my workplace. Worst of both worlds. When I'm in the office it's hot desking and none of my team are in the same place so meetings still happen on teams! It's ridiculous but it's a result of them selling off the offices so they can't have fixed workstations with everyone in at once. I find it isolating and lonely.
@@IshtarNikeyep!!! And because my office is so quiet, if I need to join a Teams call I'm expected to go into what we call the 'phone boxes' - soundproofed glass pods with one or two seats in them - so I don't disturb other people who are working!! But obviously going into the office is good for social interaction and collaboration 🙄
1992 millennial here. I feel EXACTLY the same, when I wfh I do not feel isolated at all, if I need to talk to someone I'll start a teams meeting or ping them a message. When I go into the office where it is hotdesking I just feel like I'm waiting for the day to end, I absolutely hate it and feel genuinely more isolated and actually get a sense of loneliness because no one in my team is based in the same office as me. A senior director demanded I come in twice per week and I deliberately booked a desk next to them, still did not say one word to me, was constantly away in meetings, I literally did not talk to anyone all day. Some people don't view work as a vehicle to socialise, but to you know work! Not everyone wants to network and climb the corporate ladder by kissing the next persons up's arse...
@@IgnoziI design and program surveys and run analysis on the data that they collect (I have a Masters degree in research so it's literally my dream job). I got in at the right time to get a majority wfh contract - new people in my organisation are expected to be in office two days a week now, which I guess is still better than being in all the time
Counterpoint: young or senior, if you depend on going into an office for human contact you need to make changes to your life. WFH allows me to train BJJ 5x a week, take my kids to clubs 3x a week, volunteer with a charity once a week and more and all practically within the time I would otherwise be wasting commuting. This is hours of quality social contact and community involvement that talking about a spreadsheet at a water cooler would be miserable compensation for.
I think it's different if you live alone. Sure you can do clubs or whatever. But I live alone and when I worked from home for a couple of months it would just be super depressing not talking to anyone until after 5pm everyday. If I have to be at the desk I'd rather be surrounded by colleagues to have a bit of a laugh and chat during the work day which just doesn't happen if you work from home. I think you talk from a quite privileged position to afford to have kids and take them to clubs and have bandwidth to volunteer and socialise beyond that. Many people are exhausted after work, go home cook dinner and sleep. Having a bit of human contact during your 8hours working for me at least is very valuable to my mental health.
This is a dumb comment. Few people are entirely reliant on work for human contact. But in reality some of us are extroverts who need human contact during most of our day. I have a very active social life. I see my friends every week. But it doesn't mean that my hybrid job where it takes a whole year to properly get to know people, because they're always off at different times, is not an issue for me. I work best in person and that's just a fact. I'm not in favour of return to office mandates either, but I'm also sick of people acting like WFH is the best thing ever and should work for everyone. And if it doesn't then it's "a problem with you." Yeah, there are different sorts of people in the world and making up a strawman argument about people being reliant on work for socialising is dumb.
@@jessery475 I have the bandwidth because I'm not wasting 12-15 hours on commuting each week. I can afford kids and activities because I'm not spending £200 a week on train fares. Absolutely true that many people live isolated lives in cramped inadequate housing without any community, and that's largely so that they can go into an office job. I notice that you mention being lonely for a couple of months presumably because of lockdown WFH. That was certainly a difficult time of adjustment for many. But now, and in the long term, if you depend on your employer to pick who you have contact with and provide you with the environment to do it in then you are putting a big dependency on your employer for having a basic quality of life, and that's not good or safe really.
@@jessery475I’m not trying to sound like a dick but that’s also a function of age, career progression, managing your income, finding a partner, maturing and maintaining/creating friendships outside of work. In my 20s I never had any money ever. Took into my 30s to be able to get a flat find balance. Go into further education. Find a career in an industry that would support the lifestyle I wanted. Everyone’s path is different but you’re in charge of it.
If you don't drive, too many jobs in the UK require over an hour commute by public transport, even if it's less than a ten minute drive. There are also many areas in the UK where pretty much the only jobs going are call centres or retail. WFH allows for much greater opportunities as it allows you to be employed anywhere in the country. Until we fix these aspects of society, WFH needs to be an option for all employers.
@@rebekkahill4664 you said ‘all’ employers, hence my comment. I think employers should be allowed to decide. There are certainly a lot of WFH people who frankly take the piss
@@Bringon-dw8dx if an employee doesn't get the work done, then a good employer will put them on disciplinary. Simple as. What do you mean by "taking the piss" exactly? Having a healthy amount of breaks instead of being micro managed in an office every waking moment?
I have the option to work from home, i think it's right that people have the option but I like going into work. I loathed being forced to work at home during covid. I like the separation of home and work, I like walking or cycling into work, I like getting to see different faces and interact with people in person. Commuting is so bad in the UK largely because of dependence and prioritisation of cars. I'm worried if working from home becomes default I'll lose the option to work somewhere else. Another step towards isolated semi-detached island living imo
unpopular opinion, but I also have a WFH option as part of my employment contract and actively chose to go in to the office nearly 100% of the time because I enjoy interacting with other people in a physical space. I find collaboration over teams sessions incredibly wasteful as you have to message them, book a diary slot, wait for the time when you're both available, jump on a call... or I could just walk over to their desk and ask them in person, get the information I need and go back to doing my job without all the faff. But I want others to have the option if it works for them :) I've even argued for the capacity to 'donate' my WFH hours to other employees.
@@oJ862 I think hybrid working and WFH as an option but not the default will be the way things are. A lot of people are like you and want to go into a workplace, but others find working from home much better. People should be able to do what suits them best.
Are the messages your husband gets in the evening not important? I’m all for living in a perfect fairy land but maybe stable functioning societies require a little effort 🤷🏻♂️ Including schooling future generations
The argument that WFH makes people isolated drives me mad. The workplace is not the only place to interact with people. The reality is people are now lazy with making social connections and confuse having colleagues with having meaningful long lasting friendships.
Yep, also let me worry about my own sense of isolation, don't prescribe upon me a solution motivated by your economic gain under the guise that you care about my mental wellbeing.
100% I worked in offices before the pandemic, never really struck up any long term friendships with work colleagues, we went on a few social occasions that is about it. You are working, most of the time you have a little 5 minute chat about a few minor things like football or whatever for a bit, but generally you are at your desk working and they are at their desk working. Since working from home most of the time I've made more friends and seen more of my friends because I have more time to do stuff, either using that commuting time to go to clubs or whatever, or using that time to do stuff I need to do at home that frees up more time at the weekend and evenings for the kids and friends.
Just to add, since working from home I’ve never been as happy, healthy and financially secure. I have time to exercise, see family, cook healthy meals, don’t waste money commuting or leasing a car ‘because I deserve it’. Some of the most important things that add up to good mental health. Also the problem is that many of the mangers making people return to the office are completely under the illusion that a job title/big salary are things that bring fulfilment. Many have sacrificed valuable time with loved ones for a company that unbeknown to them, doesn’t give a sh!t about their wellbeing, they simply can’t comprehend any other way.
I agree that your workplace shouldn't be your main focus for social relationships, however there is a big difference between a day filled with a few casual interactions like making a round of teas, and a day when you speak to literally no-one all day (which can happen in my job). This is why I now go to a local shared office.. it's nice to be around other people who are working hard.. but since they're not my direct work colleagues there's no chance of getting collared in the corridor to talk about work stuff. It's also a nice group of people to share a pint with on a Friday!
You're confusing flexible (the how, where, and when) with hybrid (just where). In most companies flexible means offering a job-share, part time, compressed hours etc. The bill doesn't speak about hybrid/home working specifically
As a student, I'm glad zero hour contracts aren't being entirely banned. Having a varied timetable each week, zero-hours are fantastic for me as I can pick up work where I can. On the other hand, I wouldn't be able to survive if I wasn't a student and on a zero-hour. This is the right decision. Taking it away from people who want it is a bad idea. They've handled this the right way. As for the right to switch off, the way my workplace does it is really simple and effective. Send emails out of hours and don't expect a response. I have sent emails to people at ridiculous hours after office time and would never expect someone to reply. If they do, they can and should still have that right, but there is no expectation for them to. To ban sending out of hours emails would just be a pointless inconvenience.
I agree with your stance on out of hours emails especially as someone who has worked in 24hr operations for years it's just part and parcel of the job that emails are coming in 24/7. You just answer them when you clock on unless the place is on fire/flooded (have exp of this happening).
Totally agree on the emails thing. We have really varied work patterns in my job - some people are finished at 2pm, others work on till 10pm. Most managers have something in their email signature that says 'I sent this at a time that fits with my working pattern. I don't expect you to reply outside your usual working hours'. We also aren't allowed access to work emails on our personal devices without special permission, so once I close my laptop down I don't even have to think about them till the next day if I don't want to. Game changer
Sorry just a bit lost at the end there. What did ending the strikes save? I get the hours lost, unless that's what was saved? Also, what was the Conservatives halt joke? I feel I've missed one or two things right at the end! 😅 Great video though, very informative.
Nothing in it regarding fixing holiday entitlement. I work 48 hours a week and only get 22.4 days off which is not enough and I can't even get the 0.4 off employers won't round it up to a day and they will only let me use it if I take a whole shift off. So I end up losing more money.
Re unfair dismissal, to be clear the current position is that you need two years of continuous service to qualify for protection against unfair dismissal. This is not a probation period. Probation is a contractual arrangement, eg to allow a shorter contractual notice period during probation and then the full contractual notice period applies once the employee successfully completes their probation. Under the new law it is likely that there will be a carve out for day one unfair dismissal rights to allow for a probation period.
Working from home has removed unnecessary traffic from the roads and put commuting money back into people’s wages so has in effect raised take home pay. After 20 plus years of commuting every day by car into an office for often no reason it is a godsend. You can use MS teams for everything and often we have global teams now. The office is often there if we need it. Enjoy this while it lasts.
I'm a relatively younger worker, and I had a year of full office time before the pandemic and I'd just like to comment on this idea of networking or something like. Sorry that I have to condense my experience to a paragraph I'd happily explain more but this idea of networking just sounds like utter drivel. Im in the office to do a project and the idea of waltzing around to talk to people, who are doing the same, or even going to a specific desk and asking a question like how did you get here/tell me your life story just sounds fucking nuts. Is this what people expect to do? I've never seen in the multi-department offices I used to be in havingnany opportunity for something like this, I simply don't believe this can or does happen. Maybe it's the irony of a big international company being spread so thin so far that it's unsociable but the office to me never seemed to have any social benefit. New jobs or experiences are found through applying for jobs, in regards to internal applications you only speak to HR departments for things like that, it's all so consolidated and unnatural now. I really think you guys want to reflect on a comment like that because it doesn't seem that grounded, especially in contrast to the rest of your points this video which were pretty sound (to end on a positive note :D) Ty Joe though, as always.
On the subject of sending emails out of hours. I feel like people should be able to send them whenever they like. I think It's on the individual to handle their notifications, so they don't get distracted.
3:05 The hospitality industry is full of these practices. I feel slightly excited for the first time since Labour took over; they need to address private rents. Electricity prices and railways. The current neoliberal model is unsustainable and unfair. Let's not forget 2008... Blair and Dodgy Dave was both wrong on quite a few things.⚠️ 4:06 Wealth companies did exactly that just after COVID; it happened in logistics, restaurants (even fancy ones), and supermarkets too.
I've always wanted to be involved for a long time but the volatility in the price has been very confusing to me. Although I have watched a lot of RUclips videos about it but I still find it hard to understand.
or will it mean fewer jobs, and some employers pulling jobs out of the UK, and into markets like Ireland, with more favourable taxes and employment regs?
@@PLl-jr8xi I would absolutley love for all WFH workers to stop for one day and then you would see what they all do and before you go at me I don't work from home I go in 5 days a week,I'm just not bitter
Tesco, British Gas are among a few who have regularly done fire and rehire. Large swathes of retail, sack all managers, re employe some as managers and others as newly created team or department leaders on less money while they are essentially expected to do the same job. Probably less now than back in the 90's, early 2000's. British Gas was recent, new crapper contracts, got rid of lots of experienced higher paid staff, replaced them with new, less skilled but cheaper staff. I almost viewed as standard practice for these money grabbing bastards to create more profit while paying less.
If these reforms do not include agency workers then Labour have failed to protect the millions of vulnerable agency workers. Labour will have made it more unlikely that agency will get permanent contracts.
Good discussion. There are several things that need thinking through here. I have seen a definite gender inequality, but the reverse of the usual one. It's not uncommon to go into the office and find a handful of people there, mostly men, often older or unmarried, whilst since Covid women in their 30s and 40s are only coming in between 0930 and 1500, ostensibly to pick up kids from school. Now, I fully support being able to do this (child care is unaffordable for many), but there's several unintended consequences of this: Team productivity has gone through the floor, it's often practically impossible to meet with some team members (ever), and there's a huge mental health impact on those working more regular hours. Who do you bollock if there's no one else in the office? The guy or girl who's always there. The workplace has never been more toxic if you're left holding the fort. Teams of people are in name only now, leaving a disfunctional mess. UK plc needs to do some honest thinking and have a national conversation about how to improve the work experience for everyone, not just those with young families, improve workpace rights generally, but massively improve everyone's productivity.
The middle class is dead. Tradies are taking home as much as people working in tech in the UK. And at least tradies have the skills to do work on their own properties.
Zero hour contract = Scenario: Employer contracts Recruitment Agency to place someone in a role with 3mths probation leading to a f/t job but on Zero Hours Contracts because they know 3 mths probation they can sack them at 10wks (to avoid holiday pay, tax etc) and start the process again ....rinse repeat. Recruitment agencies are complicit because they get a regular % of your salary everytime they place someone. Their only priority is only the Employer/Contract. The employee is a commodity not a person who is looking for a f/t role. Legal to do, unfair to everyone who isnt a business owner or a Recruiter RECRUITMENT AGENCIES ARE PARASITES they feed off others desperation
Ban on ZH contracts were a big reason i voted Labour. Where i am most employers were recruiting through agencies on ZH contracts and i could talk at length on all the bullshit i've seen happen because people effectively have no rights or recourse. I hope this puts alot of recruitment agencies out of business honestly.
The idea that someone under 18 can do the exact same job even in the same role as say someone in their mid twenties is for the birds. Equalising the minimum wage age bands, takes pay from older people who really need it and stifles productivity, by reducing the scope for pay rise due to experience and garnered ability. Definitely landmark. On the rocks.
It's not taking anything away from older people it's raising the younger people's pay to meet theirs. This is a good thing. Young people need the money too. If they don't work as well ask them if they'd be willing to do more training or less shifts. This would also (I hope) put a dent in the trend of mainly hiring young people for minimum wage jobs with a few or sometimes one older manager as it's cheaper for the store owners in the long run. For example (from my own experience) a team of 5 under 21s and one over 30 managed by 1 late 20s worker. It played out that no one was happy because the older among us were overworked (given more shifts than they could really handle but needed the money and while at work had to handle most of the responsibilities) and the younger among us could not get the training to be more helpful but kept having to ask for more shifts because we weren't making enough. Which was exasperated by the fact we couldn't really get a second job because it was a 0 hours and too unpredictable and some of us had other factors like studying or disability to contend with.
There is nothing for migrant workers in this bill although migrant workers are the victim of modern slavery and exploitation. Several migrant care workers were raped by employers. Uk should consider them as human being also.
You get that this is a balancing act between employer and employee not just one way. Now that’s not to say some things need rebalancing. However watch out for the “unreasonable’ grounds trap. Small business employ some 16 million people here are largely why the economy has proven so robust they cannot afford the risk associated with taking people to tribunal nor the mountain of legislation around all these issues. Also this is not a growth approach people are actually getting fired in expectation of it. The one good thing seems to be it is being delayed for consultation for the next 18 months or so but much like the tenants charter this us and them mentality is incredible unhelpful. I do think there is a real danger that we are heading for a Liz Trust moment here with the government reliant on growth to balance the books with everything they do from closing down our own oil and gas supplies and investment mainly benefitting China that risks spooking the markets. Finger crossed that I am wrong but pure ideological driven measures from right or left tend to lead to disaster.
What’s in it? A load of things that disproportionally impact small local business owned by working class people. Small businesses make up the majority of the businesses in the uk.
10:47 No, only a particular kind of individuals miss working in an office; instead, make time to see real buddies again. Establish discipline and get engaged in your community's church, council, and charitable organisations. These skyscrapers shouldn't have been approved for construction in the first place. Take a look at the designs-huge lobbies made of steel and glass that can only be modified with the expenditure of hundreds of millions of pounds.
Just to chime in for once, working from home doesn’t allow for childcare. No uk company allows childcare to occur at the same time as working from home due to liability issues. In my company you have to have arranged supervision and cannot have any ongoing “distractions” while WFH
@@666999stardust interesting, well those organisations are leaving themselves quite open from a legal perspective. If a child has an accident while under the “supervision” of an adult who is working from home, the company is potentially liable as they have explicitly allowed that adult to supervise a child while distracted with work. It’s likely your previous organisations aren’t aware of this.
@@gingerswimmer I think that's nonsense and there are no cases of this happening. Could equally blame Netflix for distracting me while my toddler was falling down the stairs.
@@Sankara561 equating a parents relationship with their employer as the same as their relationship with Netflix isn’t really correct. By explicitly agreeing with the employee that they can both work and look after their child the company is taking on legal risks related to the safety of the child. Unions will not fight for the member on this topic whatsoever (I have personal experience of this). If anyone has examples of named organisations that allow this I’d love to know as I have a few friends willing to apply for jobs there.
What salary range are the jobs you are applying to? Are you sending a CV and cover letter with each application? Have you asked a professional to review your CV?
5:20 yes Ava, agreed, but now can you tell me what the difference is between bringing those people in from abroad and then hiring them? Do you agree that bringing cheap labour to the job market does in fact damage local job security and support wage stagnation..
The pregnancy one I think is an issue, if the person is the worst candidate or underperforming do you save them and sack someone who isn’t? That’s nonesense and discrimination against people that aren’t mothers or pregnant ironically. Redundancy exclusively for a certain group nothing to do with performance.
So just like the minimum wage law, a few months after gaining power, though not implemented in law until April 1999. If you are wondering why the time gap, try actually finding out what is involved in drafting, scrutiny in select committees, consultation with all affected parties.. Like every other major legislation.
@@grahambuckerfield4640 right I think you haven't heard why it's delayed for 2 years. And I suspect those laws will be watered down before they become law.
@@Jase-y1o Well most of the unions are on board, except UNITE’s Sharon Graham (elected with 4% of her membership ), but she is still pining for Corbyn it seems. There has already been consultation with them and employers too, though more with the unions. Next will be Parliamentary Select Committees, then finally, a debate in the Commons and a vote on it. Which given Labour’s majority it will pass. We had all this in 1997-99, employers and the Tory media all claimed the minimum wage would destroy jobs, union’s claiming, or some of them, it wasn’t high enough.
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You always had the right to ignore your colleagues outside of working hours and there was nothing they could do about it. The proposal means if they contact you out of working hours, you can sue them for it
All the "positive" arguments in favour of zero hours contracts always seem to come from employers who are trying to sell the idea of zero hours contracts. And all the "people who like being on zero hour contracts" are all anecdotes given to us by employers, about people they employ who tell them that they "like" being on zero hours contracts. Probably because the employer would throw a temper tantrum and get rid of them if they said otherwise. It's all bollocks. I've never ever encountered a single person arguing in favour of zero hours contracts that wasn't an employer trying to sell the idea, and the only stories I've ever heard about people who "like" being on them have come from employers telling stories about people who may have lied to them for a quiet life, or more likely don't exist in the first place. It all sounds like a sales pitch for an idea, one that employers want because they want to have their cake and eat it too. If they have hours for you and you don't take them because you're busy that week or whatever, they'll get rid of you. If they don't have hours for you, they want you to sit there by the phone waiting for them anyway. They want commitment from you but don't want to give a commitment to you. It's ALL about skirting round workers rights. For some reason, employers believe they are entitled to labour and don't owe anything for it. They are receiving your labour, they owe you. Since they're selling your labour for a profit they keep for themselves, they owe you. Not the other way around. They'll take what they're given and they'll shut the fuck up. I'm sick to the back teeth of employers whining all the time about every tiny little thing when the brass tax of the whole situation is THEY ARE SELLING LABOUR THEY DON'T DO THEMSELVES, AND KEEPING THE PROFIT. Owners don't have to work, they get other people to do it, they're getting paid for YOUR work, and they still have the audacity to complain whenever you demand anything. Seriously, employers need to take what they're given and shut the fuck up.
I find it unbelievable that these pair,who have never had a real job comment on issues that they have no experience at all.All those who now cannot work from home must be compensated by those that do ie remove London waiting etc
Brilliant idea. Rather than asking for more from everyone, you want to ensure that many get poorer out of spite lol. Why not ask for compensation from the CEOs instead lol.
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The P&O scandal was shocking. People should have been jailed for that for exploitation.
And asset stripped. I would never wish poverty on anyone, but you deserve nothing more than the bare minimum if you believe you have a right to personal enrichment off the back of DELIBERATELY destroying the lives of others.
6:40 I work from home. You CANNOT look after a child at the same time. You STILL need childcare. I fear my work from home will get taken away because of that belief.
Perhaps it just takes away the need for childcare when you would have been commuting (which is an hour each way for many people) and working from home does allow more people to do the morning school run for example. But during the actual working hours yeah childcare is still needed.
Or you could get your family to look after child. Just like most Eastern countries doe. No need for higher tax please can't afford it. 😅
@@Jamie-ro6sx what are people who have no family supposed to do? Or of their family live too far away?
@@Jamie-ro6sx what if their family works like everybody else?
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The right to switch off should not be about stopping people from contacting each other after work hours - it's about allowing people to decide not to answer/engage in those discussions after hours without being reprimanded for it. I also think it should include the right not to use your personal hardware and number for work reasons, the number or companies I deal with that force you to provide your personal number and then contact you on it to discuss work - further still these is a major raise in installation of monitoring and work applications on personal devices.
I love working from home, it works well with my disabilities and im more productive because of it. I cant afford housing where my work is (got the job during lockdown, and have since gotten married, no longer living in my parents house), so travelling to work uses up a lot of my brain power before and after work...its exhausing.
Also, going into the office feels pointless if the rest of my team aren't there....I just end up sitting in a random space (therefore not consistent equipment), trying to be hear on a Teams call, while also trying not to be too loud and disturb others. Not ideal, when I could be having a better time at home, keeping my pets company.
I might be wrong, but I think under disability working from home qualifies as a reasonable adjustment. A former employer told me it was a flexible working request, but I don't think that was true, particularly as they later allowed me to work from home full time, down from 1day/week in the office (under flexible working request).
Totally with you about how exhausting travelling to/from work can be, as well as dealing with the office environment.
@@cosmosnomad You're not wrong. It definitely could be a reasonable adjustment for a disability but you'd make that case based on the specific disability, the job, etc
Australia has/had a version of zero hours that i really liked when I lived there - Casual Work Contract. Ot was zero guaranteed hours, but you got other benefits that motivate the employer to give a proper contact. So where minimum wage was something like $14 an hour, on this casual work you got $20 min an hour. Also a set if other benefits - like you can cancel you shift up to an hour before atart time and not get fired or in trouble.
That makes some sense for me, I'm generally pretty wary of overregulating work (having worked in France, where you couldn't fire someone if they took a whizz on your desk), but it stands to reason that you should pay extra if you're requiring someone provide you an extra service (flexibility). It's kinda like doctors getting paid to be on call.
Re WFH.
If people need to go in, work should pay their travel costs and their travel time as overtime
hahaha
You do understand most of the businesses in the Uk are small working class businesses with small margins don’t you? You’re basically promoting wiping out working class business and jobs in local areas. But I wouldn’t expect anything less from the sheltered middle class audience of politics joe, communist in the afternoon, Waitrose shopper in the evening
@@CB-dl1vg well, if a business can’t afford to pay people enough to live near it, it shouldn’t be in business. Complete bollocks that taxes subsidise business by paying benefits to staff. But hey, you keep supporting the nobility mooching off the taxpayer while they swan around in private jets
@@CB-dl1vg Then is WFH not a win-win for both parties? Employee doesn't have to pay (with both their own time and money) to commute and employer doesn't need to pay fixed costs associated with an office building.
@@Prawny How are waitresses, waiters, mechanics, brick layers, plumbers, bar staff, factory workers, people working in the local chippy all going to work from home? Like I said, the politics joe audience is just a load of out of touch middle class posers.
I feel that hybrid working is the sweet spot. Team building in office days to keep social and some home working for the benefits of care and financial releif
Watching extroverted people who want their office job to be their social life / dating pool is super frustrsting.
Dont derail my life because you want to play the sims at work. Just leave me be in peace.
Just want to finish my tasks and chill.
Glad it's not just me. It's so infuriating watching Ava talk about her friend lamenting a remote first policy at a tech company... meanwhile I can guarantee you that 90% of the people actually working in TECH there (not just marketing) are absolutely loving it.
This whole bill is icing on a rotten cake. The basic social democratic consensus is long-gone but instead of restoring and enhancing it we get 'deckchairs on the Titanic'. I'm so fed up with unions being defensive and not staking out new genuine wins for workers like me. For example, what happened to the London minimum wage?
I'm a younger millenial and started a new job working from home during the pandemic. Absolutely adore my job and managed to get promoted at the first attempt as soon as I was eligible so it hasn't hindered career progression in the slightest. I chat to my co-workers every single day while WFH and it's genuinely productive chat, not the boring small talk that I used to get in my old workplaces. My organisation have since changed to a hybrid policy where I now have to go into the office once a month. There is no one in my entire division based at the same site as me. On my last office day, the ONLY person I spoke to all day was the barista when I bought my morning coffee. Whole day in the office surrounded by people and no one said a word, and it wasn't through a lack of trying on my part. That is a far more isolating and depressing experience than working from home could ever possibly be. The world of work has fundamentally changed and I will fight tooth and nail to keep WFH as my default option
Sounds a bit like my workplace. Worst of both worlds. When I'm in the office it's hot desking and none of my team are in the same place so meetings still happen on teams! It's ridiculous but it's a result of them selling off the offices so they can't have fixed workstations with everyone in at once. I find it isolating and lonely.
@@IshtarNikeyep!!! And because my office is so quiet, if I need to join a Teams call I'm expected to go into what we call the 'phone boxes' - soundproofed glass pods with one or two seats in them - so I don't disturb other people who are working!! But obviously going into the office is good for social interaction and collaboration 🙄
1992 millennial here. I feel EXACTLY the same, when I wfh I do not feel isolated at all, if I need to talk to someone I'll start a teams meeting or ping them a message. When I go into the office where it is hotdesking I just feel like I'm waiting for the day to end, I absolutely hate it and feel genuinely more isolated and actually get a sense of loneliness because no one in my team is based in the same office as me. A senior director demanded I come in twice per week and I deliberately booked a desk next to them, still did not say one word to me, was constantly away in meetings, I literally did not talk to anyone all day. Some people don't view work as a vehicle to socialise, but to you know work! Not everyone wants to network and climb the corporate ladder by kissing the next persons up's arse...
I'm quite curious, what job do you do?
I'm looking to change careers atm and I'm quite tired of commuting, facing customers on the daily, etc.
Thanks
@@IgnoziI design and program surveys and run analysis on the data that they collect (I have a Masters degree in research so it's literally my dream job). I got in at the right time to get a majority wfh contract - new people in my organisation are expected to be in office two days a week now, which I guess is still better than being in all the time
Counterpoint: young or senior, if you depend on going into an office for human contact you need to make changes to your life. WFH allows me to train BJJ 5x a week, take my kids to clubs 3x a week, volunteer with a charity once a week and more and all practically within the time I would otherwise be wasting commuting. This is hours of quality social contact and community involvement that talking about a spreadsheet at a water cooler would be miserable compensation for.
Hard agree, if your social life revolves around being at work that is sad in itself.
I think it's different if you live alone. Sure you can do clubs or whatever. But I live alone and when I worked from home for a couple of months it would just be super depressing not talking to anyone until after 5pm everyday. If I have to be at the desk I'd rather be surrounded by colleagues to have a bit of a laugh and chat during the work day which just doesn't happen if you work from home.
I think you talk from a quite privileged position to afford to have kids and take them to clubs and have bandwidth to volunteer and socialise beyond that. Many people are exhausted after work, go home cook dinner and sleep. Having a bit of human contact during your 8hours working for me at least is very valuable to my mental health.
This is a dumb comment. Few people are entirely reliant on work for human contact. But in reality some of us are extroverts who need human contact during most of our day. I have a very active social life. I see my friends every week. But it doesn't mean that my hybrid job where it takes a whole year to properly get to know people, because they're always off at different times, is not an issue for me. I work best in person and that's just a fact. I'm not in favour of return to office mandates either, but I'm also sick of people acting like WFH is the best thing ever and should work for everyone. And if it doesn't then it's "a problem with you." Yeah, there are different sorts of people in the world and making up a strawman argument about people being reliant on work for socialising is dumb.
@@jessery475 I have the bandwidth because I'm not wasting 12-15 hours on commuting each week. I can afford kids and activities because I'm not spending £200 a week on train fares. Absolutely true that many people live isolated lives in cramped inadequate housing without any community, and that's largely so that they can go into an office job. I notice that you mention being lonely for a couple of months presumably because of lockdown WFH. That was certainly a difficult time of adjustment for many. But now, and in the long term, if you depend on your employer to pick who you have contact with and provide you with the environment to do it in then you are putting a big dependency on your employer for having a basic quality of life, and that's not good or safe really.
@@jessery475I’m not trying to sound like a dick but that’s also a function of age, career progression, managing your income, finding a partner, maturing and maintaining/creating friendships outside of work. In my 20s I never had any money ever. Took into my 30s to be able to get a flat find balance. Go into further education. Find a career in an industry that would support the lifestyle I wanted. Everyone’s path is different but you’re in charge of it.
People do forget some offices are toxic environments. People at work can act friendly. But then stab you in the back at the first opportunity.
This will hit nearly every employment law policy in one way or another - lots of work for HR departments in the UK and every employer big and small
If you don't drive, too many jobs in the UK require over an hour commute by public transport, even if it's less than a ten minute drive. There are also many areas in the UK where pretty much the only jobs going are call centres or retail. WFH allows for much greater opportunities as it allows you to be employed anywhere in the country. Until we fix these aspects of society, WFH needs to be an option for all employers.
WFH literally isn’t possible for many jobs
@@Bringon-dw8dx it goes without saying but my comment is more directed at the many jobs where WFH can easily be an option
@@rebekkahill4664 you said ‘all’ employers, hence my comment.
I think employers should be allowed to decide. There are certainly a lot of WFH people who frankly take the piss
@@Bringon-dw8dx if an employee doesn't get the work done, then a good employer will put them on disciplinary. Simple as. What do you mean by "taking the piss" exactly? Having a healthy amount of breaks instead of being micro managed in an office every waking moment?
@@rebekkahill4664 it’s pretty hard to discipline or fire people these days
The gay economy are on 0 hours contracts?
I thought Tory MPs were PAYE
I have the option to work from home, i think it's right that people have the option but I like going into work. I loathed being forced to work at home during covid. I like the separation of home and work, I like walking or cycling into work, I like getting to see different faces and interact with people in person. Commuting is so bad in the UK largely because of dependence and prioritisation of cars. I'm worried if working from home becomes default I'll lose the option to work somewhere else. Another step towards isolated semi-detached island living imo
unpopular opinion, but I also have a WFH option as part of my employment contract and actively chose to go in to the office nearly 100% of the time because I enjoy interacting with other people in a physical space. I find collaboration over teams sessions incredibly wasteful as you have to message them, book a diary slot, wait for the time when you're both available, jump on a call... or I could just walk over to their desk and ask them in person, get the information I need and go back to doing my job without all the faff. But I want others to have the option if it works for them :) I've even argued for the capacity to 'donate' my WFH hours to other employees.
@@PostingCringeOnMain Bro just send them a teams message it's not that deep lmao booking a meeting to ask for a piece of info hahaha embarrassing
@@oJ862 I think hybrid working and WFH as an option but not the default will be the way things are. A lot of people are like you and want to go into a workplace, but others find working from home much better. People should be able to do what suits them best.
You can work from a cafe or library or anywhere - Wi-Fi and broadband has opened up so many options - you don’t have to work in one location 😊
@@LukeEdwards-x8c and there are a lot of shared work spaces around now specifically for people who want to work alongside others.
Does the right to disconnect include teachers?....Would be nice to get my husband back in the evening ahaha
Are the messages your husband gets in the evening not important? I’m all for living in a perfect fairy land but maybe stable functioning societies require a little effort 🤷🏻♂️ Including schooling future generations
Now I know Laura is talking about 'gig economy' but it did reeeeaallly sound like the gay economy 🤣
i heard that too.
The argument that WFH makes people isolated drives me mad. The workplace is not the only place to interact with people. The reality is people are now lazy with making social connections and confuse having colleagues with having meaningful long lasting friendships.
@Paul. Say it louder for those at the back. They are work colleagues not friends in most cases.
Yep, also let me worry about my own sense of isolation, don't prescribe upon me a solution motivated by your economic gain under the guise that you care about my mental wellbeing.
100% I worked in offices before the pandemic, never really struck up any long term friendships with work colleagues, we went on a few social occasions that is about it. You are working, most of the time you have a little 5 minute chat about a few minor things like football or whatever for a bit, but generally you are at your desk working and they are at their desk working. Since working from home most of the time I've made more friends and seen more of my friends because I have more time to do stuff, either using that commuting time to go to clubs or whatever, or using that time to do stuff I need to do at home that frees up more time at the weekend and evenings for the kids and friends.
Just to add, since working from home I’ve never been as happy, healthy and financially secure. I have time to exercise, see family, cook healthy meals, don’t waste money commuting or leasing a car ‘because I deserve it’. Some of the most important things that add up to good mental health. Also the problem is that many of the mangers making people return to the office are completely under the illusion that a job title/big salary are things that bring fulfilment. Many have sacrificed valuable time with loved ones for a company that unbeknown to them, doesn’t give a sh!t about their wellbeing, they simply can’t comprehend any other way.
I agree that your workplace shouldn't be your main focus for social relationships, however there is a big difference between a day filled with a few casual interactions like making a round of teas, and a day when you speak to literally no-one all day (which can happen in my job). This is why I now go to a local shared office.. it's nice to be around other people who are working hard.. but since they're not my direct work colleagues there's no chance of getting collared in the corridor to talk about work stuff. It's also a nice group of people to share a pint with on a Friday!
You're confusing flexible (the how, where, and when) with hybrid (just where). In most companies flexible means offering a job-share, part time, compressed hours etc.
The bill doesn't speak about hybrid/home working specifically
As a student, I'm glad zero hour contracts aren't being entirely banned. Having a varied timetable each week, zero-hours are fantastic for me as I can pick up work where I can. On the other hand, I wouldn't be able to survive if I wasn't a student and on a zero-hour. This is the right decision. Taking it away from people who want it is a bad idea. They've handled this the right way.
As for the right to switch off, the way my workplace does it is really simple and effective. Send emails out of hours and don't expect a response. I have sent emails to people at ridiculous hours after office time and would never expect someone to reply. If they do, they can and should still have that right, but there is no expectation for them to. To ban sending out of hours emails would just be a pointless inconvenience.
I agree with your stance on out of hours emails especially as someone who has worked in 24hr operations for years it's just part and parcel of the job that emails are coming in 24/7. You just answer them when you clock on unless the place is on fire/flooded (have exp of this happening).
Totally agree on the emails thing. We have really varied work patterns in my job - some people are finished at 2pm, others work on till 10pm. Most managers have something in their email signature that says 'I sent this at a time that fits with my working pattern. I don't expect you to reply outside your usual working hours'. We also aren't allowed access to work emails on our personal devices without special permission, so once I close my laptop down I don't even have to think about them till the next day if I don't want to. Game changer
A contract could be given to employees that allows for flexible hours.
@markhodgkinson1737 You've just described a zero hour contract
@@blisseyran-dom6822 so it is. Permanent contract, but for a flexible number of hours.
Thatcher did it when privatetising school dinners and cutting there wage .... It cost the public 3 Billion in comparison 8 years later ... !
Sorry just a bit lost at the end there. What did ending the strikes save? I get the hours lost, unless that's what was saved? Also, what was the Conservatives halt joke? I feel I've missed one or two things right at the end! 😅
Great video though, very informative.
Nothing in it regarding fixing holiday entitlement. I work 48 hours a week and only get 22.4 days off which is not enough and I can't even get the 0.4 off employers won't round it up to a day and they will only let me use it if I take a whole shift off. So I end up losing more money.
Re unfair dismissal, to be clear the current position is that you need two years of continuous service to qualify for protection against unfair dismissal. This is not a probation period. Probation is a contractual arrangement, eg to allow a shorter contractual notice period during probation and then the full contractual notice period applies once the employee successfully completes their probation. Under the new law it is likely that there will be a carve out for day one unfair dismissal rights to allow for a probation period.
Working from home has removed unnecessary traffic from the roads and put commuting money back into people’s wages so has in effect raised take home pay. After 20 plus years of commuting every day by car into an office for often no reason it is a godsend. You can use MS teams for everything and often we have global teams now. The office is often there if we need it. Enjoy this while it lasts.
I'm a relatively younger worker, and I had a year of full office time before the pandemic and I'd just like to comment on this idea of networking or something like.
Sorry that I have to condense my experience to a paragraph I'd happily explain more but this idea of networking just sounds like utter drivel. Im in the office to do a project and the idea of waltzing around to talk to people, who are doing the same, or even going to a specific desk and asking a question like how did you get here/tell me your life story just sounds fucking nuts. Is this what people expect to do? I've never seen in the multi-department offices I used to be in havingnany opportunity for something like this, I simply don't believe this can or does happen. Maybe it's the irony of a big international company being spread so thin so far that it's unsociable but the office to me never seemed to have any social benefit.
New jobs or experiences are found through applying for jobs, in regards to internal applications you only speak to HR departments for things like that, it's all so consolidated and unnatural now. I really think you guys want to reflect on a comment like that because it doesn't seem that grounded, especially in contrast to the rest of your points this video which were pretty sound (to end on a positive note :D)
Ty Joe though, as always.
On the subject of sending emails out of hours. I feel like people should be able to send them whenever they like. I think It's on the individual to handle their notifications, so they don't get distracted.
Yeah people can send them whenever but just don't expect that everyone will respond out of hours.
Nah, schedule send has existed for years now. If you're sending an email there's no excuse to not just schedule it to arrive during work hours.
3:05 The hospitality industry is full of these practices. I feel slightly excited for the first time since Labour took over; they need to address private rents. Electricity prices and railways. The current neoliberal model is unsustainable and unfair. Let's not forget 2008... Blair and Dodgy Dave was both wrong on quite a few things.⚠️ 4:06 Wealth companies did exactly that just after COVID; it happened in logistics, restaurants (even fancy ones), and supermarkets too.
Ava using the bring your child to work day to maximum effect
I've always wanted to be involved for a long time but the volatility in the price has been very confusing to me. Although I have watched a lot of RUclips videos about it but I still find it hard to understand.
or will it mean fewer jobs, and some employers pulling jobs out of the UK, and into markets like Ireland, with more favourable taxes and employment regs?
wfh has been a godsend for saving money so I'm all for it
Good send for you to just sit at home and get paid for doing nothing
@@PLl-jr8xi salty
Never . I alway make sure I eat lots of pineapple before I visit your girlfriend.
@@PLl-jr8xi Just because you weren't smart enough to get a job where you can WFH....
@@PLl-jr8xi I would absolutley love for all WFH workers to stop for one day and then you would see what they all do and before you go at me I don't work from home I go in 5 days a week,I'm just not bitter
Tesco, British Gas are among a few who have regularly done fire and rehire. Large swathes of retail, sack all managers, re employe some as managers and others as newly created team or department leaders on less money while they are essentially expected to do the same job. Probably less now than back in the 90's, early 2000's.
British Gas was recent, new crapper contracts, got rid of lots of experienced higher paid staff, replaced them with new, less skilled but cheaper staff.
I almost viewed as standard practice for these money grabbing bastards to create more profit while paying less.
If these reforms do not include agency workers then Labour have failed to protect the millions of vulnerable agency workers. Labour will have made it more unlikely that agency will get permanent contracts.
Good discussion. There are several things that need thinking through here. I have seen a definite gender inequality, but the reverse of the usual one. It's not uncommon to go into the office and find a handful of people there, mostly men, often older or unmarried, whilst since Covid women in their 30s and 40s are only coming in between 0930 and 1500, ostensibly to pick up kids from school.
Now, I fully support being able to do this (child care is unaffordable for many), but there's several unintended consequences of this: Team productivity has gone through the floor, it's often practically impossible to meet with some team members (ever), and there's a huge mental health impact on those working more regular hours.
Who do you bollock if there's no one else in the office? The guy or girl who's always there. The workplace has never been more toxic if you're left holding the fort. Teams of people are in name only now, leaving a disfunctional mess. UK plc needs to do some honest thinking and have a national conversation about how to improve the work experience for everyone, not just those with young families, improve workpace rights generally, but massively improve everyone's productivity.
WFH is for the middle classes
Why, Do working class people never do office based work? Sounds like a class stereotype.
The middle class is dead. Tradies are taking home as much as people working in tech in the UK. And at least tradies have the skills to do work on their own properties.
guna be interesting to see how much this channel defends labour for everything this year lol
I'm sure hours of commuting instead of a bit of "isolation" will do wonders for mental health.
I hope that's sarcasm - you should try my commute. It's bloody awful! :)
@@dom9882 it is indeed very much sarcasm
Better for the environmental impact too 😊
What about electronic balloting ?
Zero hour contract = Scenario: Employer contracts Recruitment Agency to place someone in a role with 3mths probation leading to a f/t job but on Zero Hours Contracts because they know 3 mths probation they can sack them at 10wks (to avoid holiday pay, tax etc) and start the process again ....rinse repeat. Recruitment agencies are complicit because they get a regular % of your salary everytime they place someone. Their only priority is only the Employer/Contract. The employee is a commodity not a person who is looking for a f/t role. Legal to do, unfair to everyone who isnt a business owner or a Recruiter RECRUITMENT AGENCIES ARE PARASITES they feed off others desperation
Ban on ZH contracts were a big reason i voted Labour. Where i am most employers were recruiting through agencies on ZH contracts and i could talk at length on all the bullshit i've seen happen because people effectively have no rights or recourse. I hope this puts alot of recruitment agencies out of business honestly.
I think the answer as to why they're bringing some of these things up now is because they can give us them for essentially free
The idea that someone under 18 can do the exact same job even in the same role as say someone in their mid twenties is for the birds.
Equalising the minimum wage age bands, takes pay from older people who really need it and stifles productivity, by reducing the scope for pay rise due to experience and garnered ability.
Definitely landmark. On the rocks.
It's not taking anything away from older people it's raising the younger people's pay to meet theirs. This is a good thing. Young people need the money too. If they don't work as well ask them if they'd be willing to do more training or less shifts. This would also (I hope) put a dent in the trend of mainly hiring young people for minimum wage jobs with a few or sometimes one older manager as it's cheaper for the store owners in the long run.
For example (from my own experience) a team of 5 under 21s and one over 30 managed by 1 late 20s worker.
It played out that no one was happy because the older among us were overworked (given more shifts than they could really handle but needed the money and while at work had to handle most of the responsibilities) and the younger among us could not get the training to be more helpful but kept having to ask for more shifts because we weren't making enough.
Which was exasperated by the fact we couldn't really get a second job because it was a 0 hours and too unpredictable and some of us had other factors like studying or disability to contend with.
It’s taken me a year from being back from mat leave to get my brain into gear!🥴
Yea so no guaranteed wage for 0 hour contracts, sounds like more toothless labour policy.
There is nothing for migrant workers in this bill although migrant workers are the victim of modern slavery and exploitation. Several migrant care workers were raped by employers. Uk should consider them as human being also.
You get that this is a balancing act between employer and employee not just one way. Now that’s not to say some things need rebalancing. However watch out for the “unreasonable’ grounds trap. Small business employ some 16 million people here are largely why the economy has proven so robust they cannot afford the risk associated with taking people to tribunal nor the mountain of legislation around all these issues. Also this is not a growth approach people are actually getting fired in expectation of it. The one good thing seems to be it is being delayed for consultation for the next 18 months or so but much like the tenants charter this us and them mentality is incredible unhelpful. I do think there is a real danger that we are heading for a Liz Trust moment here with the government reliant on growth to balance the books with everything they do from closing down our own oil and gas supplies and investment mainly benefitting China that risks spooking the markets. Finger crossed that I am wrong but pure ideological driven measures from right or left tend to lead to disaster.
If your business is so unstable that you cannot provide your employees with reliable pay and employment then your business is not viable.
What’s in it? A load of things that disproportionally impact small local business owned by working class people. Small businesses make up the majority of the businesses in the uk.
You cannot look after a child and wfh, this argument alone proves you are doing f all at home
10:47 No, only a particular kind of individuals miss working in an office; instead, make time to see real buddies again. Establish discipline and get engaged in your community's church, council, and charitable organisations. These skyscrapers shouldn't have been approved for construction in the first place. Take a look at the designs-huge lobbies made of steel and glass that can only be modified with the expenditure of hundreds of millions of pounds.
exactly, and saving time on your commute means you have more time to develop yourself as a person outside of work
@@gracefr1345 🎯
Just to chime in for once, working from home doesn’t allow for childcare. No uk company allows childcare to occur at the same time as working from home due to liability issues.
In my company you have to have arranged supervision and cannot have any ongoing “distractions” while WFH
I have worked now for two large organisations that allow this.
The company I work for allows childcare whilst WFH
@@666999stardust interesting, well those organisations are leaving themselves quite open from a legal perspective.
If a child has an accident while under the “supervision” of an adult who is working from home, the company is potentially liable as they have explicitly allowed that adult to supervise a child while distracted with work.
It’s likely your previous organisations aren’t aware of this.
@@gingerswimmer I think that's nonsense and there are no cases of this happening. Could equally blame Netflix for distracting me while my toddler was falling down the stairs.
@@Sankara561 equating a parents relationship with their employer as the same as their relationship with Netflix isn’t really correct.
By explicitly agreeing with the employee that they can both work and look after their child the company is taking on legal risks related to the safety of the child. Unions will not fight for the member on this topic whatsoever (I have personal experience of this).
If anyone has examples of named organisations that allow this I’d love to know as I have a few friends willing to apply for jobs there.
I have been applying for jobs for over a year and still I can't even get an interview. I am only receiving rejections .
What salary range are the jobs you are applying to? Are you sending a CV and cover letter with each application? Have you asked a professional to review your CV?
Podcasting at midnight to discuss matters including a work-life balance. :D
Were they joking? If not, was it a deliberate ironic choice? If not, are they just mental?
What's the gay economy?
Gig economy, but it did sound like she said gay instead.
she says "gig economy", not "gay economy"
What jobs when everything is being taken over by online, AI and automated systems.
Try running a business.
What is the "gay economy"?
Oh shes saying GIG economy, not gay economy 1:30
Umbrella companies: It's your time to shine.
Day 65 of asking for a production team microphone.
5:20 yes Ava, agreed, but now can you tell me what the difference is between bringing those people in from abroad and then hiring them? Do you agree that bringing cheap labour to the job market does in fact damage local job security and support wage stagnation..
The pregnancy one I think is an issue, if the person is the worst candidate or underperforming do you save them and sack someone who isn’t?
That’s nonesense and discrimination against people that aren’t mothers or pregnant ironically. Redundancy exclusively for a certain group nothing to do with performance.
Midnight aye?
It's called the union bill. However it won't be in law for another 2 years. So it's pretty pointless 😂
How is that pointless?
So just like the minimum wage law, a few months after gaining power, though not implemented in law until April 1999. If you are wondering why the time gap, try actually finding out what is involved in drafting, scrutiny in select committees, consultation with all affected parties..
Like every other major legislation.
@@GarethPW because they won't be in law for another 2 years according to Rayner because they don't want to scare off investment and big businesses.
@@grahambuckerfield4640 right I think you haven't heard why it's delayed for 2 years. And I suspect those laws will be watered down before they become law.
@@Jase-y1o Well most of the unions are on board, except UNITE’s Sharon Graham (elected with 4% of her membership ), but she is still pining for Corbyn it seems.
There has already been consultation with them and employers too, though more with the unions.
Next will be Parliamentary Select Committees, then finally, a debate in the Commons and a vote on it.
Which given Labour’s majority it will pass.
We had all this in 1997-99, employers and the Tory media all claimed the minimum wage would destroy jobs, union’s claiming, or some of them, it wasn’t high enough.
This is my most anticipated legislation next to train renationalisation
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You always had the right to ignore your colleagues outside of working hours and there was nothing they could do about it. The proposal means if they contact you out of working hours, you can sue them for it
Lefty propaganda
The no zero hour contracts is going to crush the job market tbh
Does anyone still believe anything any politician says?
When You girls host the show I don't fall a sleep listening to political commentary 😂
All the "positive" arguments in favour of zero hours contracts always seem to come from employers who are trying to sell the idea of zero hours contracts. And all the "people who like being on zero hour contracts" are all anecdotes given to us by employers, about people they employ who tell them that they "like" being on zero hours contracts. Probably because the employer would throw a temper tantrum and get rid of them if they said otherwise.
It's all bollocks. I've never ever encountered a single person arguing in favour of zero hours contracts that wasn't an employer trying to sell the idea, and the only stories I've ever heard about people who "like" being on them have come from employers telling stories about people who may have lied to them for a quiet life, or more likely don't exist in the first place. It all sounds like a sales pitch for an idea, one that employers want because they want to have their cake and eat it too. If they have hours for you and you don't take them because you're busy that week or whatever, they'll get rid of you. If they don't have hours for you, they want you to sit there by the phone waiting for them anyway. They want commitment from you but don't want to give a commitment to you. It's ALL about skirting round workers rights.
For some reason, employers believe they are entitled to labour and don't owe anything for it. They are receiving your labour, they owe you. Since they're selling your labour for a profit they keep for themselves, they owe you. Not the other way around. They'll take what they're given and they'll shut the fuck up. I'm sick to the back teeth of employers whining all the time about every tiny little thing when the brass tax of the whole situation is THEY ARE SELLING LABOUR THEY DON'T DO THEMSELVES, AND KEEPING THE PROFIT. Owners don't have to work, they get other people to do it, they're getting paid for YOUR work, and they still have the audacity to complain whenever you demand anything. Seriously, employers need to take what they're given and shut the fuck up.
I find it unbelievable that these pair,who have never had a real job comment on issues that they have no experience at all.All those who now cannot work from home must be compensated by those that do ie remove London waiting etc
Brilliant idea. Rather than asking for more from everyone, you want to ensure that many get poorer out of spite lol. Why not ask for compensation from the CEOs instead lol.
Hahaha idiot