Employers will be forced to offer more secure terms to more than a million workers if the employment bill going through parliament is implemented, according to research by a leading thinktank. Both had been expected to steer the bill through to becoming legislation and subsequently to implement its many elements via secondary legislation. Ben Harrison, the thinktank’s director, said: “Strengthening workers’ rights is a critical step towards delivering better living standards for working people across the UK. And while it is right that the government engages extensively to ensure new measures are workable for workers and employers, ministers must not trade away the benefits of the bill. “Excessive delays in being able to access new rights risks significantly reducing the number of workers who will benefit from them at any given time.