Do you think workers in the UK have too many employment rights or not enough?

Question

What changes would you make?

Answer 1

Is this your homework question - there's section for that, you know.

Low-paid workers have too few rights, highly paid workers have too many.

The disability discrimination act is little short of a shirkers charter and the race discrimination act is being used by employees from canada and australia to claim 'discrimination' when they're just useless.

Both have been usurped by the feckless whilst the real victims of discrimination struggle to get justice.

Answer 2

Not enough!

Answer 3

Impossible to Answer unless you understand the value judgements people are going to apply to interpreting and answering it.To start with you could say that the word "rights" although it implies some natural universal entitlement(s) is actually a set of political/legislative demands conceeded in a particular economy/legislative framework.

You could and perhaps should leave it there because most employment "rights" are actually quite arbitrary legal entitlements.They exist because they exist."Too many" or "Not enough" doesn't enter into it.

Answer 4

There are far too many dictatorial employment laws in Britain, and practically all of them should be scrapped.

How much somebody is paid, how much holiday time he gets, and similar issues are private matters between employer and employee, and are none of the government's business.   Nobody holds a gun to anyone's head and forces him to accept a job -- If he doesn't like the conditions on offer, he can negotiate to find mutually agreeable terms of employment, or he can look for work elsewhere.

In a free country, an employer should also have every right to decide who he will hire and who he will not hire, for any reason he sees fit, without so-called "anti discrimination" laws bullying and intimidating him.  It is HIS business, not the government's.

Answer 5

give them a fair wage so they can live a decent life

Answer 6

don`t know about too many rights but before the minimum wage employers could pay what they wanted so thats a good thing to have that even though it is a small amount, most strikes were about who was getting paid more than others and doing the same job so that has stopped most people are paid the same now.  

Answer 7

Workers have very little rights on minimum wage following the destruction of the trade unions, all thats missing is the employers right to sack instantly and without reason like they have in California.

Expect it here in around 5 years