Labour's idlers' charter is bad for business

NOT for the first time, Jacob Rees-Mogg got it: the Government’s plan to make working from home “the default from day one” is, he says, “an idler’s charter”.

- Melanie McDonagh

Workers will be able to demand to work from home from the off and employers will be required to agree “so far as is reasonable”. So, the onus will be on the employer to prove that his expectation that he might actually meet the people he employs is “reasonable”.

I’d say it’s always reasonable to ask people to take the trouble actually to turn up for work, but this is now, it seems, a minority view. The leisured classes now include those in a job.