NLRB General Counsel Continues Challenge to Non-Compete Agreements, Announces Position on Sign-On Bonuses and Other "Stay-or-Pay" Provisions. The new Tips Act has already received Royal Assent and is expected to come into force on 1 October 2024.Labour's Plan to Make Work Pay indicated that it plans to fill in a lot of the detail through regulations rather than primary legislation. We consider the changes to employment law outlined in The King's Speech on 17 July 2024. The new government has confirmed it will ban 'exploitative' work practices through a new Employment Rights Bill in today's King's Speech. Notice of Employee Rights, Protections, and Obligations Under Labor Law Section 740. The state opening of parliament speech confirmed the Labour government will legislate to introduce a new deal for working people to "ban exploitative practices. It is billed as representing the biggest upgrade to workers' rights in a generation. We enforce the State Labor Laws for minimum wage, hours of work, employment of minors, payment of wages, farm labor, nursing mothers in the workplace, and more. Learn your rights when employers withhold bonuses.