Business wrong to always see red about employment regulations

A new Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) Work Horizons report, ‘The economic rights and wrongs of employment regulation’ concludes that …

A new Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) Work Horizons report, ‘The economic rights and wrongs of employment regulation’ concludes that the knee-jerk opposition of much of the business lobby to many employment laws betrays an underlying bias against employment regulation which at times flies in the face of economic evidence.

While the report supports the coalition government’s better regulation agenda, it questions the case for the kind of wholesale ‘drive to deregulate’ advocated by sections of the business lobby. It highlights evidence showing that the UK still has the third least regulated labour market in the world according to the OECD and that rising numbers of employment tribunal claims are to a significant degree the result of an increase in multiple claims and the impact of the recession.

The report concludes that the prime focus of regulatory reform should be on streamlining the red tape that accompanies regulation rather than on watering down the substance of existing employee rights and entitlements.

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