Queen's speech could benefit construction workers
The Queen's speech proposals for construction workers could help improve their rights. Some of the proposals include: equal rights for agency workers, an incentive for carbon capture and a report on the high speed rail line to Scotland.
The most significant part of the speech for construction workers is the specific measures which are to be carried out, to make a delivery plan to secure 26 million homes for the UK, which would create and secure thousands of jobs in the building sector.
The government also say that the new energy bill incentive to bring forward four carbon and capture storage (CCS) projects, would be at a commercial scale. Meaning this would put the UK at the forefront of global efforts towards the global deployment of CCS, at the levels required to acheive its potential as a carbon reduction technology. The government added "The incentive could also provide funding for the retrofit of those demonstration projects to their full capacity, should it be required in future."
This incentive has been welcomed as long as statutory obligations apply across all energy generators so that all sectors are level with eachother.
The issue of a high speed rail line from Scotland to London is also due to be reported on. The HS2 company has been set up by Sir David Rowlands, the report will reveal where the line will go and how it will be obtained by the Department for Transport by the end of the year.
The Queen's speech said: it plans to give agency workers who have been employed for over 12 weeks, equal rights on holidays and pay, the same as permanent employees. And plans to improve the response to flooding are to be reviewed, allocating responsibilities for managing floods and new sustainable drainage systems.