Introduce statutory protections & retraining rights for workers displaced by AI

Summary

The Government should introduce statutory protections for workers whose jobs are eliminated or significantly changed by AI or automation. This should include a legal duty on employers to consult staff before AI-driven redundancies, minimum notice & compensation requirements, & access to retraining AI is already reshaping entire industries, often with no warning or support for affected workers. Existing redundancy law wasn’t designed for this scale of disruption. We’re not asking government to ban AI — we’re asking it to make sure workers aren’t left with nothing when their jobs disappear. Regulation is needed urgently before AI’s own self development outpaces our ability to implement new laws and gain tighter control of the technology

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1. 28 July 2026

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   The Government should introduce statutory protections for workers whose jobs are eliminated or significantly changed by AI or automation. This should include a legal duty on employers to consult staff before AI-driven redundancies, minimum notice & compensation requirements, & access to retraining AI is already reshaping entire industries, often with no warning or support for affected workers. Existing redundancy law wasn’t designed for this scale of disruption. We’re not asking government to ban AI — we’re asking it to make sure workers aren’t left with nothing when their jobs disappear. Regulation is needed urgently before AI’s own self development outpaces our ability to implement new laws and gain tighter control of the technology

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