CIPD consultation response: Labour Market Enforcement Strategy
Submission to the Department for Business and Trade
Submission to the Department for Business and Trade
We respond to the government consultation on Labour Market Enforcement Strategy. The CIPD has long called for a new single enforcement body and so we welcome the establishment of a Fair Work Agency.
However, to realise the ambition of the new agency the government must take further steps to improve labour market enforcement and support employer compliance.
Improving enforcement will require a comprehensive labour market enforcement strategy that includes the new Fair Work Agency, the work of the Health and Safety Executive and the Equality and Human Rights Commission.
We also believe that additional funding will be required for more labour market inspectors and measures to improve the efficiency of the over-burdened employment tribunal system.
We have also called for Acas’ budget to be doubled to £120m a year to support its ability to advise and support employers – particularly SMEs – to comply with new regulation and ensure the system overall can play a much stronger role in raising employment standards.
Submission to the Business and Trade Committee
Submission to the UK Department for Work and Pensions and HM Treasury
Our response to the Department for Business and Trade’s consultation on the application of zero hours contracts measures to agency workers.
Our response to the Department for Work and Pensions' consultation on creating a modern industrial relations framework
