The UK government has this week made the first in a series of “regulatory reform announcements” as part of its efforts to “reduce burdens, push down the cost of living and drive economic growth”. Its proposals for reform include some changes to employment law, although nothing significant for the most part – more tinkering around the edges.
First off is confirmation that (despite previous assertions to the contrary) the government will not be scrapping all EU-derived legislation by the end of the year. In a statement to Parliament, Kemi Badenoch (the Secretary of State for Business and Trade) said the government will amend the Retained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Bill to remove the so-called "sunset clause" that would have repealed most EU-derived legislation in the UK by the end of 2023 unless the government took active steps to retain it. Instead, the government has set out a list of specific EU laws that will be scrapped. While, at face value, this approach seems more sensible (and one likely to be welcomed by businesses as it will give them much greater certainty about the future legislative landscape) it is clear that the government is rather more talk than trousers in terms of "freedom" from EU law, once one actually reviews the list. Although the list is relatively long, it mainly deals with relatively obscure pieces of legislation very few of which have any impact on employment law, for our purposes, and even those that do are somewhat esoteric.
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