Angela Rayner responds to the Head of the UN’s agency for Workers’ Rights rejecting Government assertions that they supported plans to enforce minimum service levels

Angela Rayner MP, Labour Deputy’s Leader and Shadow Secretary of State for the Future of Work, responding to the Head of the UN’s agency for Workers’ Rights rejecting Government assertions that they supported plans to enforce minimum service levels, said:

“Grant Shapps has been ludicrously claiming that his Sacking Nurses Bill has the international seal of approval, but the ILO and the US Labour Secretary clearly beg to differ. The Business Secretary has been hiding behind warped and wilful misunderstandings of the International Labour Organisation's code in his desperate attempts to justify this shoddy, unworkable and vindictive piece of legislation.”

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Hearing these answers from the ILO, US labour secretary Marty Walsh asked the BBC to ask him the same question about supporting "minimum service agreements". 

Mr Walsh replied: "No. I don't know about the legislation. But I certainly will work with the ILO, [the United States] is a board member of the ILO as well… I would not support anything that would take away from workers."