Employment Update - September 2011

There is now less than a month to go before the long awaited Agency Workers Regulations come into effect on 1 October, and whilst we focused on these in our last update, for those who want to revisit a summary of the new provisions please click here. The government has recently confirmed that the Regulations will come into force as originally planned and it is not intending to suspend or amend them despite reports that it was carrying out a review following legal advice that they are "gold plated".

There is little else to report on the legislative front, but that will change soon when the government reports back on consultations that took place earlier this year on areas such as tribunal reform, flexible working and shared parental leave.