Update to Employment Rights Bill

On 4 March, the Government tabled amendments, and published five consultation responses related, to the Employment Rights Bill. The consultation responses have been published on GOV.UK and concern:

• The application of zero-hour contracts measures to agency workers; 
• Creating a modern framework for industrial relations; 
• Strengthening remedies against abuse of rules on collective redundancy;
• Strengthening Statutory Sick Pay; and,
• Tackling non-compliance in the umbrella company market consultation.

The amendments tabled yesterday help to strengthen the legislation, providing further detail and clarity on measures and ensuring measures can be implemented in a straightforward way. These amendments follow extensive consultation with businesses, trade unions and others, through which we have listened to expert views on how to make these reforms work across a range of sectors and workplaces.