UK PM risks split over workers’ rights

The British Business Secretary Vince Cable attacked plans for changing the country’s employment law which Cameron is reported to be supporting, put forward by Adrian Beecroft, a multimillionaire venture capitalist who has given over £530,000 to the Conservative party.

The Beecroft report, which is expected to be published soon, will consist of 20 proposals, calling for a change in the safeguards that protect employees from being sacked, including reducing to 30 days the mandatory 90-day consultation when a company considers redundancy programmes.

Meanwhile, a senior Liberal Democrat criticized the 15-page document as merely the view of “one man” and “not methodologically rigorous.”

“Our economy is not in recession, with over 2.6 million people out of work, because of the rights we all enjoy at work. We are in recession because of the economic incompetence of this Government,” said Labour’s shadow Business Secretary, Chuka Umunna.

Furthermore, condemning the controversial plan as “a failed ideology,” Left Economics Advisory Panel co-coordinator Andrew Fisher said, “It is becoming increasingly apparent to more and more people that the coalition government is using the economic crisis as a smokescreen to dismantle and privatize public services, and unpick workers’ rights.”

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