PA Wire/PA Images All workers will be legally entitled to 'plain english' explanations of their rights, under new rules. And new rules will increase the maximum employment tribunal fines for employers demonstrated to have shown malice, spite or gross oversight from £5,000 to £20,000. Business Secretary Greg Clark wrote in a blog on HuffPost UK that the reforms represent the “biggest upgrade in workers’ rights in a generation”. “The right to request guaranteed working hours is no right all. “People on zero-hour contracts and workers in the insecure economy need much more than a weak right to request a contract and more predictable hours.”

Source: Huffington Post December 17, 2018 07:41 UTC