Employment Law
The UK Government's Red Tape Challenge
In April, the UK Government began a new initiative through The
Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) to review a
significant amount of secondary legislation, the majority being
statutory instruments, which it considers create unnecessary red
tape to business.
The Employment Law Subcommittee are currently considering
the employment legislation covered in the review.
Visit the red tape challenge website to view the
consultation
BIS Consultation Modern Workplaces: Flexible Parental
Leave
This consultation, published by the Department for Business
Innovation and Skills (BIS), sought views on an entirely new system
of parental leave and pay, available to mothers and fathers on an
equal basis, to replace maternity leave and pay beyond the first 18
weeks of a child's life.
BIS Consultation Modern Workplace: Equal Pay
This consultation contains proposals for further action to
tackle the gender pay gap.
Modern Workplaces - Working time regulations
This consultation details proposals on changes to the UK's
Working Time Regulations. These concern the interaction of annual
leave with sick, maternity, adoption, parental, and paternity
leave. Changes are necessary to ensure that UK legislation is
consistent with the Working Time Directive, as interpreted in a
number of judgments of the Court of Justice of the European Union
(CJEU).
Consultation on Modern Workplaces - Flexible working
This consultation sets out proposals to implement the Coalition
Agreement commitment to extend the right to request flexible
working to all employees, enabling them to achieve a better
work-life balance.
Resolving Workplace Disputes
This consultation was conducted by the Department for Business,
Skills & Innovation (BIS) and the Ministry of Justice's
Tribunals Service. It is the first step in taking forward the
Government's review of employment law.
The Government is seeking views on measures to:
• achieve more early resolution of workplace disputes so that
parties can resolve their own problems, in a way that is fair and
equitable for both sides, without having to go to an employment
tribunal
• ensure that, where parties do need to come to an employment
tribunal, the process is as swift, user-friendly and effective as
possible; and
• help businesses and social enterprises feel more confident
about hiring people