Leadsom and maternity rights

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How could anyone stomach this loathsome woman as PM when she stands up and says that anyone working for a company with less than three employees should have no right to maternity leave or the minimum wage? I no that it's is a burden on small business but life nor pregnancy gets cheaper because you happen to work for a small company!

if you can't deal with it, don't be an employer don't just whine and expect to be treated as a special snowflake because you can't be bothered to comply with the law.

Well yes exactly that's what they do. They don't whine about it, just decide that staying as a one man band is better.

Why would those women want to work for us, rather than a slightly larger organisation, if we didn't offer the same employment rights as a larger organisation?

Well if they could find something else they wouldn't. Unless there was xpotential for partnership or something long term.

Hamish,
Whilst I sympathise with your feelings, I suggest you should try and run a business before you complain about changes in the law.

Small business is the backbone of the country. Yet legislation is always written for big business to suit big business.

Didn't we used to sort out top up wages within the wage packet instead of people having to get benefits??

I would like to see a new way.

Small businesses get massive tax breaks to enable them to pay a living wage, TESCO don't, they just have less profit to give to share holders on the basis that the tax payer doesn't provide top ups to slave wages. A small business owner would have to apply for these top ups/tax breaks not the worker.

I said a Tory govt would destroy employment rights once out of the EU and the Leavers scoffed and said it would never happen for X, y and z reasons. Every fucking claim, every single promise has been backtracked on. How can anyone call this democracy when everything Vote Leave was built on has immediately proven to be lies and deceit? I am boiling with rage.

I can't believe I'm saying this, but please let May win!

No don't fall into the trap CaptainBrickbeard I know being a remainer it's tempting to see May as a better choice, but this is all the spin stage. Once either of them is installed as prime minister they will both be calamitous.

What's frightening is that they were the best the conservative party could come up with.

Both right wing nightmares but May is slightly less distasteful. Not by much though~)

May's politics may be distasteful, but at least she is a reasonably honest broker (all things are relative) and has a track record of being a moderately competent, if heartless, government minister.

Leadsom has almost no government experience, and what little track record she has is poor. Plus, we know now that she has terrible judgement and is being poorly advised.

May has played her cards cannily and that has to be a good thing in a PM who will have to lead some very difficult negotiations.