This call for evidence sets out the issues on which Margaret Beels, the Director of Labour Market Enforcement, seeks evidence to inform her strategy for 2024 to 2025.
Sep
13
Employment
Jun
06
Low Pay Commission consultation 2023
The Low Pay Commission is seeking evidence to inform recommendations on minimum wage rates in 2024 and beyond.
Mar
07
Department for Trade and Business: Calculating holiday entitlement for part-year and irregular hours workers
This consultation focuses on how holiday entitlement is calculated for part-year workers and workers with irregular hours. The consultation seeks to understand the implications of the judgment on different sectors including agency workers who have complex contractual arrangements.
Jun
27
Low Pay Commission Consultation 2022
The Low Pay Commission’s consultation asked for evidence and views on the impact of the National Living Wage (NLW) increase on businesses’ employment and hours, pay and benefits, productivity, prices and profits.
May
31
Labour Market Enforcement Strategy 2023 to 2024
This call for evidence sets out the issues on which the Director of Labour Market Enforcement would like to receive evidence to inform her labour market enforcement strategy 2023 to 2024.
The director is seeking stakeholder evidence on emerging issues around compliance and enforcement in the UK labour market.
Dec
09
BEIS: Making Flexible Working the Default
This consultation contains proposals to reform flexible working regulations (The Flexible Working Regulations 2014). It also covers the wider work being undertaken by the government to encourage and support flexible working, and responds to relevant proposals from the July 2019 Good Work Plan: Proposals to support families consultation.
Dec
03
House of Commons Public Accounts Committee - Kickstart scheme
In a follow up to its wider inquiry into DWP support for employment during Covid the Committee will question senior DWP officials more closely specifically on the ‘Kickstart scheme’.
Apr
26
LPC: Low Pay Commission 2021
The Low Pay Commission (LPC) is the independent body which advises Government on the levels of the National Living Wage (NLW) and National Minimum Wage (NMW). To help shape the recommendations on the 2022 minimum wage rates, the Low Pay Commission is seeking evidence on the impact of the NLW and NMW.
The consultation is seeking views on business conditions and the economic outlook, in light of the Covid-19 pandemic and the support measures the Government has implemented in response to it.
This includes:
Feb
26
BEIS: Exclusivity Clauses
The Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy launched a consultation on a proposal to extend the ban on exclusivity clauses to contracts where the workers’ guaranteed weekly income is less than the Lower Earnings Limit, currently £120 a week.
The intention is to allow low-income workers who are not able to secure the number of hours they would like from their current employer to seek additional work elsewhere.
Nov
20
DWP: Call for evidence and good practice on in-work progression
The Department for Work and Pensions launched a call for evidence on in-work progression, which is exploring barriers to progression specifically within the retail, hospitality, construction and care sectors. The Government’s ambition is to improve overall national productivity through aiding more individuals taking on good work at higher pay, particularly from these sectors.
