Andrea Leadsom Tried To Abolish All Worker’s Rights For Small Companies In 2012

If a business cannot survive without exploiting workers the business model itself if bunk.

But we are talking about small start up companies with 3 employees

Can you imagine if for example they had 2 employees and both wanted to go on say maternity leave

For many this would cause the company to fail

If a business is unable to survive the terrible stresses of first-world worker protection laws, I think it positively should fail.

I'm disappointed by this, I thought Leadsom was a compassionate progressive leaver after he seeking to reassure EU migrants already here.

If a business is unable to survive the terrible stresses of first-world worker protection laws, I think it positively should fail.

I'm disappointed by this, I thought Leadsom was a compassionate progressive leaver after he seeking to reassure EU migrants already here.

As long as there's a strict limit on which small coma knows this applies to, then fair enough.

As long as perfectly stable business don't exploit this, otherwise we'd end up seeing wages reduced everywhere. (Making the Brexit vote pointless since people spoke about immigration driving down wages)

I think the proposal was for those employing 3 people or less

Listening to her supporters last night, most of them seem to be very over on the hard right of the Tories, so there must be reasons why she's appealing to that crowd.

So what if workers don't have as many right?! In my opinion they shouldn't!

Is May any better? She was always mix of authoritarian-lite and flip-flopping incompetent. She was suggesting using the EU migrants already here as bargaining chips, despite campaigning to remain, it's cruel to give these people such uncertainty, they didn't choose any of this.

I guess the challenge will be that a lot of the people who are angry and voted leave are fed up with their low wages and poor working conditions and they have been told that this is due to immigrants being willing to work for low wages in poor conditons. They probably expect that a vote to leave will mean the immigrants will be sent home and their wages and working conditions will go up as a result.

If that doesn't happen, there will be a backlash.

Nope I do not agree.. immigrants still need to apply for jobs and go through the same process has anybody else to actually be employed by a company, that will have to pay minimum wage or above. Companies that advertise to fill job positions usually want to pay a certain amount and it is stated in the job advert, everybody then has a fair chance to apply and get that job.

So what is an example of this immigrants lowering wages?

I agree, and the academic studies don't seem to find much evidence of immigration depressing wages. However there is a perception amongst most of those who vote UKIP/vote leave that immigrants depress wages and its just big business that wants them as cheap workers.

So a lot of people are expecting wages to rise, as a result of Brexit.

Not news. Other Tories would do the same thing or try once we leave the EU. It is what Jeremy Corbyn should have been arguing and even been prepared to debate with David Cameron over.

I thought maternity pay was still largely taxpayer-funded for all businesses?

EDIT: There's a link here about it.
https://www.gov.uk/recover-statutory-payments

Small businesses actually get over-reimbursed slightly for it.

Can you imagine if for example they had 2 employees and both wanted to go on say maternity leave

For many this would cause the company to fail