Here’s a look at what’s coming up in Parliament this week 👇

👷🏻‍♀️Second Reading of the Employment Rights Bill

This Government was elected on a pro-worker manifesto. The Plan to Make Work Pay sets out a significant and ambitious agenda to ensure workplace rights are fit for a modern economy, empower working people, and contribute to economic growth.

These are just some of the proposals contained in the bill –

• Ban exploitative zero and low hours contracts.
• Remove the two-year minimum period of employment qualification for unfair dismissal.
• Strengthen family friendly rights and flexible working.
• End unscrupulous fire and rehire and fire and replace practices.
• Strengthen statutory sick pay by removing the waiting period and the lower earnings limit.
• Establish a Single Enforcement Body to ensure employment rights are upheld.
• Repeal the Strikes (Minimum Service Levels) 2023 Act and the Trade Union Act 2016.

✅ Motion to approve the Infected Blood Compensation Scheme Regulations 2024

The victims of the infected blood scandal – both the infected and affected – have waited far too long for justice. The suffering those infected and affected have endured for decades in their fight to be heard is shameful to every Government spanning back to the 1970s and to politics itself.

I am glad that the new Government is treating this scandal with the urgency it deserves.

💬 General debate on Black History Month

This debate provides Parliamentarians with an opportunity to recognise and celebrate the important contributions of the UK’s Black community, while acknowledging the difficulties members of the community have faced and still face.

Keir Starmer will bring forward the Hillsborough Law, introducing a “duty of candour” on public servants, holding them criminally accountable for withholding information during public investigations, helping to prevent coverups, such as Windrush.