LONDON, Feb 16 (Reuters) – More than one in three UK employers plan to cut their hiring of permanent staff due to costs introduced by the government’s labour law reforms, a survey showed on Monday.
The Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development, a professional body for the human resources sector, said overall hiring intentions remained at their lowest level on record excluding the first year of the COVID pandemic, adding to the risks that an ongoing jobs market slowdown deepens.
The Labour Party government of Prime Minister Keir Starmer secured parliamentary approval for its Employment Rights Act in December. Original plans for protections against unfair dismissal for new workers were softened but new rules on sick pay, zero-hours contracts and union rights remained.
The CIPD said:
(Writing by William Schomberg; editing by Suban Abdulla)
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