Submitted by Jacqueline Thompson on Tuesday 3rd December 2024
Published on Tuesday 28th January 2025
Current status: Open
Open until: Monday 28th July 2025
Current Signatures: 34
(count is updated approximately hourly)
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Bills ~ Busy ~ Committee ~ concerns ~ Damaged ~ Demand ~ Falling ~ IMPACT ~ insurance ~ irreversible ~ Minimum ~ Minimum wage ~ National Insurance ~ Owners ~ pause ~ point ~ Prevent ~ Rents ~ Rights Bill ~ Small businesses ~ smes ~ The Bill ~ Tipping Point ~ tips ~ utility bills ~ Wages
Pause Employment Rights Bill to assess impacts on SMEs
The Regulatory Policy Committee assessed eight of the twenty-three individual Impact Assessments for the Bill as “not fit for purpose”, six of which fall within the ‘highest impact’ measure category in the Bill’s summary impact assessment.
Small businesses are already facing increased costs from higher minimum wages, increased National Insurance, rents, rates, utility bills etc. We are concerned that the implementation of this bill could be the tipping point. We demand that the government slow down, reevaluate, and consult with SME owners. We believe it is crucial to rethink this to prevent irreversible damage to our small businesses.
If you want to sign this petition (as opposed to merely discuss it), you need to do that on the government's e-Petitions website.
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