May's silence

[OwlHoot]

But we provided a better standard of guesswork than the losers.

Exactly! I guessed Brexit could win, and that Trump had a chance of winning.

So that's two out of two up against the Bremainiac Clinton-loving losers!

[GB9]

Exactly! I guessed Brexit could win, and that Trump had a chance of winning.

So that's two out of two up against the Bremainiac Clinton-loving losers!

Did you get good odds on the double?

[DaveB]

Not necessarily.


Yes but employees are forced to opt-out anyway except in jobs they can't for health and safety reasons.

Nope, only certain groups are legally exempted. It's illegal to force someone to opt out if they are not in one of those, or discriminate against them if they refuse to opt out when asked.

https://worksmart.org.uk/work-rights...ing-time-rules

Not any of these particularly age - due to ageing population and pensions crisis - and sexual orientation - there are sufficient gay Tory MPs and the Government want to keep the gay vote.

Age discrimination legislation came in from the EU because older people who wanted to work were discriminated against. Nothing has changed that means employer wouldn't rather hire younger people that they will get more time out of, will have fewer sick days etc.

There are still plenty of people who would gladly see the back of equality legislation in respect to sexual orientation and plenty of conservatives who campaign for it to be revoked.

Employers would gladly see the back of regulations forcing them to treat part timers and those on FTC's as regular employees.

Traditional thinking on the right is that anything that makes life easier for business is good.

Rest breaks are health and safety law. We are one of the countries who helped shaped H&S laws in Europe.

Rest breaks such as lunch breaks and rest between working days are not part of health and safety, they stem from the Working Time Directive. There are additional rules around working time and rest where health and safety are an issue but this is not related to that.

https://www.gov.uk/rest-breaks-work/overview

Paid holiday is to do with religion plus you can still force employees to take certain days off.

Paid holiday is nothing to do with religion. And while you can be told to take days off, employers still have to pay you for those days. Remove the right to paid holiday and you wont get it. Up until the WTD was introduced in 1998 tere was no right in the UK to a minimum number of paid holidays a year.

Leave for working parents was a coalition policy campaigned by the Lib Dems and helps with the pensions crisis.

It was introduced as part of the Social Chapter of the Maastrict treaty and the Conservatives under John Major sought and obtained an opt out from it. It was reintroduced by Tony Blairs government in 1997 when they cancelled the opt out allowing the adoption of the Social Chapter into British Law.

They have been watered down over the years.

No, TUPE regulations have been updated once, in 2014, from the original 2006 regulations and no-one really regarded it as a watering down.

http://www.acas.org.uk/media/pdf/l/1...ACCESSIBLE.pdf

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/g...ome-into-force

Yes this will be watered down as this is hated by Tories and agencies/businesses easily work round them.

Then we agree.

Depends.

Phillip Hammond has already indicated he is willing to cut CT rates to make the UK more attractive to businesses post Brexit.

[AtW]

Phillip Hammond has already indicated he is willing to cut CT rates to make the UK more attractive to businesses post Brexit.

And increase dividend tax?