Gary Smith, general secretary of the GMB union, said the bill gave workers “the rights they’ve been denied for so long”, but added there was a “long way to go”.
“The legislation must be watertight and without loopholes that could be used by those wanting to delay the rights workers so desperately need,” he said.
Some measures included in Labour’s plan to “Make Work Pay”, external, issued in the run-up to the General Election, will not feature in the bill either.
The “right to switch off” stopping employers contacting staff out of hours, for example, will be part of a “Next Steps” document in which the government will set out hopes for further reform.
Conservative shadow business secretary Kevin Hollinrake said the party would look closely at the detail of what Labour has set out.
“But businesses and the economy needs certainty, not the threat of being sent back to the 1970s, unleashing waves of low-threshold, zero-warning strikes, driving down growth and slowing productivity,” he said.
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