Whenever British business calls for more flexible labour laws I am outraged by what is nothing more than a call to allow employers to make a fast buck at the expense of working people. Lack of restrictions on employers in the way they hire, fire and treat their workforce is a very different thing to flexibility.
UK employment legislation gives workers fewer rights than their European counterparts, “workers” even less so than “employees”. Even Prime Minister Tony Blair boasted that the UK has the least regulated labour laws in Western Europe.
