The Government has launched a consultation process that aims to reduce the amount of “red tape” that surrounds employment law without reducing employees’ rights.
The “Red Tape Challenge” is a brand new website which acts as a place for businesses and employees to give their opinions as to how to improve the employment law that are currently in place.
Around 160 employment law regulations will come under review by the Business Department over the next three weeks, which fall under four separate categories; hiring staff, managing employees, letting people go, and compliance and enforcement.
Visitors to the Red Tape Challenge site can submit their opinions as to whether certain regulations are maintained, restructured, or even scrapped altogether.
Employment relations minister Edward Davey claims this new initiative will enable the Government to pinpoint employment law regulations that can be “simplified, merged and abolished” without having to “water down” employee rights.
Speaking about the Red Tape Challenge, Davey said: “We often hear from businesses that employment related regulation holds them back from growing their firms and employing more people.
“Whether it is the filling out of endless forms when you hire your first member of staff, the complexities of letting somebody go, or simply manage staff on a day-to-day basis, we want to review these regulations with the aim of giving business more confidence in employing people and creating more jobs.”
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