Positive changes to employment law are expected for 2024 - here's what you need to know.
In the first half of this year the CBI convinced the government to change its approach to the Retained EU Law (REUL) Bill. As proposed, the Bill’s ‘sunset-clause’ would have resulted in as many as 4,000 pieces of REUL legislation – spanning areas as diverse as employment law, intellectual property, health and safety, and the environment – falling off the statute book, causing legal uncertainty and damaging business confidence.
The final Act instead made only a small number of targeted changes to legislation, as well as providing the government with considerable new powers to amend assimilated EU law in the future with ease.
Changes to the Working Time and Transfer of Undertakings regulations show that careful employment law reform can boost competitiveness…
While making the case for the government to drop the ‘sunset clause’, the CBI argued that there were opportunities to reform REUL in a pragmatic way that can reduce regulatory burdens on businesses.<
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