'Workers are suffering' | Did the Government 'turn its back' on workers with the Queen's Speech?

Yesterday, the Government marked the opening of a new parliamentary session with the traditional reading of a Queen’s Speech, albeit delivered by Prince Charles in her absence.

The speech, presented by the sitting Government, spoke of rectifying financial challenges, post-Brexit trade agreements and ‘levelling up’. However, there were several notable absences, which many within the people function may find worrying.

The most notable of these absences was the omission of measures to improve the rights of workers – an element that many had expected to feature having been first announced by the Government back in 2019. These new measures looked to sure up the right for flexible working, protections against pregnancy discrimination and the rights for customer facing staff in hospitality and service industry roles to keep tips given to them by customers.

Why was the omittance of the bill bad for HR?