Over the last few months, the Employment Rights Bill has been making its way through the parliamentary process. It will shortly finish its time in the House of Commons and move on to the House of Lords for further consideration.
This week the government tabled a number of amendments to the Bill following recent consultations with business groups, trade unions, etc. The majority of these implement its responses to the various consultation exercises it issued last autumn, details of which were published earlier in the week, but it has also thrown in a few more changes for good measure! While taking feedback on legislative measures into account is obviously laudable and more than some commentators thought likely, the impression of policy in other respects being made up as we go along is hard to shake.
We set out the key changes put forward by the government and the potential implications for employers.
