Keir Starmer says his party are planning a building spree and are willing to relax planning restrictions to enable it
Last week the leak of a report to Labour’s national policy forum confirmed that the party intends to legislate to give people the right to flexible working, which would include the ability to work from home some of the time for many employees. In its news story on the proposal the Daily Mail said “increasing the likelihood of people working from home could jeopardise the push to improve the UK’s productivity, which trails behind some of the other major economies and is seen as vital for securing improved growth in the long term”.
But this has not discouraged Keir Starmer. In his Times interview he said giving people the right to work from home was “very important to use”. He went on:
Security, dignity and respect at work matters to working people. And because every good employer will tell you and every good business will tell you that if you want high productivity, if you want a well-run business, then how you treat your workforce is part of that.
Yeah, well they voted against the minimum wage back in the day on the same basis. And now they claim it as their own.
I think it’s something for businesses to find their own way through.
There are some very exciting opportunities created by the fact that we’ve all learned to use Zoom in teams for meetings.
