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Employment

Employment Bill

Key Benefits
The Employment Bill would increase protection for vulnerable workers and lighten the load for law-abiding businesses.

Simplify, clarify and build a stronger enforcement regime for key aspects of employment law.

Improve the effectiveness of employment law to the benefit of employers, trade unions, individuals and the public sector.

Repeal the statutory dispute resolution procedures and pave the way for implementation of a package of replacement measures to encourage early/informal resolution, reducing administrative burdens on business by up to £180m per year.

Clarify and strengthen the enforcement framework for the National Minimum Wage (NMW) and employment agency standards. The new framework would provide greater support to vulnerable workers, promote compliance and help ensure a level playing field for compliant businesses.

To ensure compliance with the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) judgement in Aslef v UK, and clearer rights for trade unions to determine their membership.

Implementing the outcome of the Dispute Resolution Review (DRR), paving the way for replacement of the current statutory procedures with a new non-regulatory system. This forms part of a wider programme of work to implement the Gibbons review, which aims to help resolve disputes at an earlier stage and improve the way employment tribunals work.

Reforming the enforcement and penalties framework for the National Minimum Wage (NMW) and employment agency standards.

Amending trade union membership law in light of the European Court of Human Rights judgment in Aslef v UK (such that trade unions can expel members on the basis of their membership of a political party).

Employment
Territorial Extent
United Kingdom
Employment

The Bill also applies to Scotland.

Related Documents

Existing Legislation in this area

  • Employment Relations Act 2004
  • Employment Act 2002
  • (Dispute Resolution) Regulations 2004
  • National Minimum Wage Act 1998
  • Employment Agencies Act 1973