Britain’s biggest business groups have urged Conservative peers to stop blocking Labour’s workers’ rights bill in the House of Lords to avoid throwing away a compromise deal reached with trade unions.
With the clock ticking before Christmas, six of the country’s biggest employers’ groups warned that failure to pass the legislation before parliament rises on Thursday could put at risk a deal brokered with bosses and union leaders.
In a letter to the business secretary, Peter Kyle, the employers’ groups – the Confederation of British Industry, the British Chambers of Commerce, the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development, the Federation of Small Businesses, the Recruitment and Employment Confederation, and Small Business Bri
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