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<p>Through our Good Work Plan reforms this Government is delivering the biggest upgrade
to workers’ rights in a generation, and working to ensure that the UK labour market
strikes the balance between flexibility and worker protections.</p><p>We have already
taken significant steps to ensure that the UK's flexible economy works for all, We
have passed legislation that means almost 300,000 workers, including people on casual
or flexible hours contracts, will have a right to a payslip for the first time. This
helps workers in the flexible economy to better understand their pay and identify
if their employer is not meeting their minimum pay obligations.</p><p>We have quadrupled
the penalty that Employment Tribunals can use where employers have shown malice, spite
or gross oversight. This reform acts as an important deterrent against poor employment
practices and is an important measure to protect the rights of those working in our
flexible economy.</p><p>We have also helped agency workers by abolishing the Swedish
Derogation, removing a legal loophole to secure equal pay for up to 120,000 agency
workers.</p>
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