Consultation outcome

Enforcement of employment rights recommendations

From:
Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy
Published
7 February 2018
Last updated
17 December 2018 — See all updates
This was published under the 2016 to 2019 May Conservative government
This consultation has concluded

Detail of outcome

The Good work plan, which sets out our vision for the future of the UK labour market, draws on the feedback from this consultation.

Feedback received

Consultation responses: A-C

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Consultation responses: D-L

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Consultation responses: M-Z

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Detail of feedback received

We have published the full set of responses to this consultation above, and a combined summary of responses covering the following consultations:

Original consultation

Summary

We're seeking views on the recommendations in the Review of Modern Working Practices on the enforcement of employment rights.

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Consultation description

We’re seeking views on the recommendations in the Matthew Taylor Review of modern working practices on the enforcement of employment rights.

This consultation:

  • sets out the government’s intention to enforce a wider range of basic employment rights on behalf of vulnerable workers
  • seeks evidence on the extent of the problem faced by low paid workers in accessing sick pay and holiday pay to help target enforcement efforts
  • sets out the government’s plans to simplify the enforcement process for employment tribunal awards
  • outlines the government’s intention to introduce a naming scheme for unpaid employment tribunal awards
  • takes forward the review’s recommendations that employment tribunal judges should be obliged to consider stronger punishments for employers who ignore previous tribunal judgments
  • seeks views on how best to implement these measures

Further detail

On 7 February 2018 we published the government response to the Matthew Taylor Review of Modern Working Practices along with this and 3 other related consultations:

Documents

Consultation on enforcement of employment rights recommendations

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Updates to this page

Published 7 February 2018
Last updated 17 December 2018 + show all updates

  1. Full set of consultation responses published.

  2. First published.

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