BRC welcomes Lords amendments to Employment Rights Bill

The British Retail Consortium (BRC) has welcomed amendments to the Employments Right Bill put forward by the House of Lords last week.
Members of the House of Lords proposed removing the bill’s “day one” rights for employees to claim unfair dismissal and replacing it with a qualifying period of six months, down from the current two-year period.
It also included the removal of a worker’s right to guaranteed-hour contracts after 12 weeks of service with a “right to re