General Election Countdown: Let's Get Ready To Rumble

With just over three weeks until the General Election, the parties are getting ready to pack a punch. It seems that workers' rights are high on the political agenda and likely to feature in all the main manifestos, official versions of which are (at the time of writing this post) yet to be released.

Prime Minister May has set out 11 key employment-related pledges and, not only has she guaranteed that all workers' rights currently offered under EU law will be maintained in spite of Brexit, she has also committed to building on these entitlements. Amongst other things she has pledged that the national living wage will rise "in line with average earnings by 2022". Her "new deal for workers" is also likely to include a statutory right to a year's unpaid leave to care for a relative, two weeks' statutory bereavement leave in the event of the death of a child, "better rights for workers in the gig economy", and a commitment that workers' pensions will be given new