Paragraph 2, very interesting for any working class voter thinking of voting UKIP.... 3.1 Employment contracts A potential employee is usually in the weaker bargaining position when it comes to negotiating the terms of his or her individual contract of employment, so it is tempting for the government to try and win the votes of employees (who inevitably outnumber SME owners by a huge margin) by imposing terms into employment contracts which appear generous to the employee. The inevitable result of such self-serving government interference into the millions of contracts that are entered into each year is hugely misleading and, with all distortions, the costs to the economy as a whole always outweigh the apparent gains. UKIP would put an end to most legislation regarding matters such as weekly working hours, holidays and holiday, overtime, redundancy or sick pay etc. and provide a statutory, standard, very short employment contract template. The first column would contain the main areas – such as days’ holiday or weekly working hours, the second column would show a typical figure for all employees (or employees in that specific type of business) and the employer would enter a figure into the third column (which might be more or less generous than the figure in the second). A copy of this template would be made available to all candidates before the job interview, to enable them to compare and contrast between different jobs and to save embarrassment during the interview itself. Copies of the agreed list would be given to employer and employee when the job offer is agreed, and only in the absence of such a list, would the terms of employment revert to the statutory default. Those employers who offer relatively generous terms would be able to use this in their advertising and might be able to attract better candidates or pay slightly lower salaries, and the reverse would apply to employers who demand longer working hours, or offer fewer holidays or fewer days’ sick pay etc.
Posted on: Thu, 25 Jul 2013 09:52:50 +0000
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