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[Darkpig]

Happy Bison Month everyone!

[Grey Cloud]

Just dropping this here for those Americans whose right-wing echo chambers are painting the UK as tyrannical.

 

From:

Department for Business and Trade, Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government, The Rt Hon Jonathan Reynolds MP and The Rt Hon Angela Rayner MP

Published

1 July 2025

• Comprehensive roadmap for Employment Rights Bill to raise living standards across the country whilst giving employers and workers the time to adapt.    

• Sets out timelines for new landmark rights with 15 million, or half of all, workers set to start benefitting from later this year.  

• Government will continue to consult with employers, workers and trade unions to ensure the best deal for growth and boosting living standards in line with the Plan for Change.     

The Government has today (Tuesday 1 July) unveiled its comprehensive roadmap setting out how it will deliver its new package of workers’ rights through the plan to Make Work Pay.    

Landmark changes delivered through the Employment Rights Bill including sick pay for up to 1.3 million of the lowest earners and day one rights to parental and paternity leave will be introduced for the first time from early next year, demonstrating the government’s determination to boost living standards and protections for millions, whilst giving employers the certainty they need to plan for future changes.  

It also announces that the new Fair Work Agency will launch from early next year, creating a level-playing field so rogue employers cannot undercut good businesses who comply with the law.  

Informed by more than 190 pieces of engagement with businesses and other crucial stakeholders over the last 12 months, a phased approach was taken to give workers clarity and employers time to prepare. Key measures in the Bill will come into effect in 2026 and 2027, whilst further consultations are planned from this year into next.  

 

. . . 

 

After the bill is passed: 

• Immediate repeal of the strikes (minimum service levels) act 2023 and the majority of the trade union act 2016 to create a better relationship with unions that will prevent the need for strikes. 

• Protections against dismissal for taking industrial action to ensure workers can defend their rights without fear of losing their jobs. 

April 2026: 

• Collective redundancy protective award – doubling the maximum period of the protective award to provide stronger financial security for workers facing mass redundancies. 

• ‘Day one’ paternity leave and unpaid parental leave to support working families from the very start of employment. 

• Whistleblowing protections to encourage reporting of wrongdoing without fear of retaliation. 

• Fair work agency established to enforce labour rights and promote fairness in the workplace. 

• Statutory sick pay – removing the lower earnings limit and waiting period 

• A package of trade union measures including simplifying trade union recognition process and electronic and workplace balloting to strengthen democracy and participation in the workplace. 

October 2026: 

• Ending unscrupulous fire and rehire practices to protect workers from being forced into worse terms under threat of dismissal. 

• Regulations to establish the fair pay agreement adult social care negotiating body in England to raise standards and pay in the social care sector.  

• Tightening tipping law - strengthen the law on tipping by mandating consultation with workers to ensure fairer tip allocation. 

• Requiring employers to take “all reasonable steps” to prevent sexual harassment of their employees to create safer, more respectful workplaces. 

• Introducing an obligation on employers not to permit the harassment of their employees by third parties to extend protections to all work environments, including public-facing roles. 

• A package of trade union measures including new rights and protections for trade union representatives, extending protections against detriments for taking industrial action and strengthening trade unions’ right of access. 

2027: 

• Gender pay gap and menopause action plans (introduced on a voluntary basis in April 2026) to promote gender equality and support women’s health in the workplace. 

• Enhanced dismissal protections for pregnant women and new mothers to safeguard job security during pregnancy, maternity leave and a return-to-work period. 

• Further harassment protections, specifying reasonable steps which will help determine whether an employer has taken all reasonable steps to prevent sexual harassment to provide clearer guidance and stronger enforcement against harassment. 

• Creating a modern framework for industrial relations to build a fairer, more collaborative approach to workplace relations. 

• Bereavement leave to give workers time to grieve with job security. 

• Ending the exploitative use of zero hours contracts to provide workers with stable hours and predictable income. 

• ‘Day 1’ right to protection from unfair dismissal to ensure all workers are treated fairly from the start of employment. 

• Improving access to flexible working to help people balance work with family, health, and other responsibilities. 

 

Source: Roadmap news

[Guest]

> I don't know who is the most irritating person for you in "Seinfeld", but for me, it is definitely Kramer. His behavior is damn annoying.

[MadMansGun]

2 minutes ago, Evaloves4 said:

> I don't know who is the most irritating person for you in "Seinfeld", but for me, it is definitely Kramer. His behavior is damn annoying.

all of Seinfeld, boring and not funny.

[Guest]

3 minutes ago, MadMansGun said:

all of Seinfeld, boring and not funny.

> Agree, his humor isn't well accepted here, in our country. Only a few percent of people like it.

[Count Chocula]

10 minutes ago, MadMansGun said:

all of Seinfeld, boring and not funny.

Hermano!

[Grey Cloud]

2 hours ago, Darkpig said:

Happy Bison Month everyone!

What month is bidaughter month? Asking for a friend.

[Darkpig]

11 hours ago, Grey Cloud said:

Asking for a friend.

With or without benefits?

[Guest]

> People nowadays are too sensitive and too offensive, even if you approach them in love and peace.

[vfvi]

does anyone know a good corin wickes nsfw mod? something like a bustier chest or nude mod, thanks

[steelpanther24]

19 hours ago, Evaloves4 said:

> People nowadays are too sensitive and too offensive, even if you approach them in love and peace.

Do you mean ones you meet irl or on the web?    Good and easy times tend to make people more likely to find offense at something that is relatively minor.  

[Guest]

3 hours ago, steelpanther24 said:

Do you mean ones you meet irl or on the web?    Good and easy times tend to make people more likely to find offense at something that is relatively minor.  

> IRL. LL is the only social forum that I am active in and a member of.

Edited July 4, 2025 by Evaloves4

[Guest]

> I am truly working hard on this, but so far, not successfully. Mr. Trilog aka@Tirloque is my (yet unreachable) model in this. My luvs don't even bother with it.

Edited July 4, 2025 by Evaloves4

[Guest]

> To all who callebrate it, happy:

 

[Guest]

[Ijakor2]

wisdom makes a homo sapiens an human beeing.

 

so my parrot is really dead, plz bring me the holy hand granade and sing the lumberjack song while doing so.

 

greets from gemany.

 

humor dies last.

 

Edited July 5, 2025 by Ijakor2

[Count Chocula]

There once was a man from Nantucket ...

 

Also, in the past 1/2-hour, I have posted about Madeline Khan, dinosaurs and drinking urine.

Edited July 7, 2025 by Count Chocula

[Guest]

[Guest]

> I hate to hear or read: he stole my girlfriend/wife, or she stole my boyfriend/husband. Such a thing doesn't exist. You can steal objects and things, not human beings who willingly went with their lovers.

[Raven 54]

I just watched Old Guard 2 on Netflix.... What a terrible ending...

Movie spoiler in Spoiler Tag, don't look if you don't want it ruined for you!

Spoiler

It only took five freaking years for number two to release... I don't know if I will still be alive to find out what happens in number three.       

 

Edited July 8, 2025 by Caveman 74

[steelpanther24]

4 hours ago, Caveman 74 said:

I just watched Old Guard 2 on Netflix.... What a terrible ending...

Movie spoiler in Spoiler Tag, don't look if you don't want it ruined for you!

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It only took five freaking years for number two to release... I don't know if I will still be alive to find out what happens in number three.       

 

Is this a series about you?   You are an old guard, so without you, they don't have a series. 

[porkybork]

I don't know why, but underboob seems a lot more sexually explicit to me than deep cleavage.

[Count Chocula]

4 hours ago, porkybork said:

I don't know why, but underboob seems a lot more sexually explicit to me than deep cleavage.

I was thinking that same thing a couple of days ago. I must have ESPN or something.

 

I read a book once (if you can believe that sort of thing) about the making of the original Star Trek series. When it came to revealing clothing, they were allowed to show the top of the breast all the way down as long as no part of the nipple showed. But underboob was verboten. I don't recall if the book mentioned side boob. This pic does not show it, but the character's (Andrea) outfit in the episode "What Are Little Girls Made Of?" is pretty revealing, perhaps even with a touch of side boob. But there are arguably even more revealing outfits elsewhere in the show. I find it interesting that 60 years later, gratuitous frontal upper body female nudity is no more allowed on non-premium/non-pay service U.S. shows than it was in 1965.

Edited July 9, 2025 by Count Chocula

[Flasticia]

What is on my mind is how do I install skyrim or skyrim special edition , or fall out or star field with adult mods and make it run smoothly so it doesn't crash or doesn't work. That is what is on my mind.. as of right now. 

[Guest]

On 7/8/2025 at 1:21 PM, Caveman 74 said:

I just watched Old Guard 2 on Netflix.... What a terrible ending...

Movie spoiler in Spoiler Tag, don't look if you don't want it ruined for you!

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It only took five freaking years for number two to release... I don't know if I will still be alive to find out what happens in number three.       

 

> After reading this post, I watched it too with my luvs. They stopped watching it after about 45 minutes, saying it was awfully boring. I watched it to the end and had to agree that the first movie was way better than this one.