How is this taxing companies? They already have the data.

To be clear, I mean employment is already taxed extremely highly.

Burnham put cost of living as his highest priority, then this is the kind of measures he comes out with. If you think more red tape and bureaucracy is going to help then I've got nothing.

This isn’t red tape or bureaucracy though. Many things are, but not this. Infact it actually reduces waste for both comapnies and citizens because they won’t have people applying who will turn down due to the salary.

Forcing employers to declare information is bureaucracy.

The opposite to bureaucracy is allowing them to approach hiring however they see fit.

Hardly an “excessively complicated administrative procedure”

In modern Britain it's death by a thousand cuts for anyone brave enough to start a business in this regulatory environment.

Opposite to bureaucracy is cash in hand and paying no taxes - that will make the businesses boom.

Advertising salaries upfront lifts the salaries. Study a bit harder man, you will make it.

Unlike the other side (tm) ...

Mandatory Gender Pay Gap Reporting (Conservative Party 2017)

Pay Transparency Pilot (Conservative Party 2022) - (Participating employers only) list salary ranges on all job adverts and stop asking applicants for their salary history during recruitment

That's why they call it the uniparty after all.

For some reason cultists get all excited that one particular person is single handedly destroying everything that is great and true - by doing the same thing their lord and saviour does.

This political timeline is the worst.

You're really clutching at straws to spin this pro-employee move into some way to claim that Labour are bad