Delaying new law ‘gives green light to rogue employers’, says TUC

With employment bill unlikely to make Queen's speech, P&O Ferries-type scandals will happen again, says Frances O'Grady

Britain's top union leader has written to the business secretary, Kwasi Kwarteng, to warn the government that dropping plans to legislate for tougher employment rights after mass sackings at P&O Ferries would side with bad bosses".

Frances O'Grady, the general secretary of the Trades Union Congress, said the UK needed urgent proper legislation" through an employment bill promised by ministers more than two years ago but repeatedly delayed.