Tag Archives: Enforcement

Single Enforcement Body: Yes, kids, we’re almost there!

Posted on August 21, 2024 by wonkypolicywonk

Almost three years ago, in December 2021, I concluded on this blog that, in terms of progress towards the creation of a single enforcement body for workplace rights – a reform I had first proposed 20 years earlier, when a … Continue reading →

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A hollow victory? Enforcement of unpaid ET awards

Posted on April 20, 2023 by wonkypolicywonk

On a cold, grey day in early 2009, I was summoned to a meeting with officials at the headquarters of the Ministry of Justice in Petty France. A few months previously, in response to a series of reports I had … Continue reading →

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The Taylor Review is dead, long live the Warman Review!

Posted on May 16, 2022 by wonkypolicywonk

So, just two days after shelving a repeatedly promised Employment Bill intended to deliver a raft of policy pledges made as long ago as February 2018, Boris Johnson has launched a new review into the future of work. Because the … Continue reading →

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New Year, new enforcement body?

Posted on December 30, 2019 by wonkypolicywonk

So, Boris Johnson held and won the general election that, back in August, I predicted he might well hold and win on the back of a ‘deal’ with the EU27 that, at that time, most commentators thought less likely than … Continue reading →

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Single Enforcement Body: Will the Tories boldly go where Labour and the Lib Dems failed to tread?

Posted on October 7, 2019 by wonkypolicywonk

In July, the Government launched a formal, 12-week consultation on a proposal to establish a new Single Enforcement Body for employment rights. You might even have submitted a response (the consultation closed yesterday). And you probably concluded that it is … Continue reading →

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Minimum wage, minimum shame?

Posted on December 19, 2017 by wonkypolicywonk

On 8 December, the Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy (BEIS) named & shamed another 260 employers for non-compliance with the national minimum wage. Inevitably, press and media coverage of this round of naming & shaming – the 13th … Continue reading →

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Wish you were here, Minister

Posted on December 8, 2017 by wonkypolicywonk

Batting for the ‘have nots’ rather than the ‘haves’, lefty policy wonks like me don’t get to claim many policy wins – we spend most of our professional lives banging our world-weary heads against very well constructed brick walls. I … Continue reading →

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NMW enforcement: has BIS kissed goodbye to £4m in financial penalties?

Posted on May 13, 2016 by wonkypolicywonk

As noted on this blog in February, something very unusual went on with enforcement of the national minimum wage (NMW) in 2015/16, with both the total amount of NMW arrears recovered by HMRC and the number of workers benefiting from … Continue reading →

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NMW enforcement: curiouser and curiouser

Posted on April 19, 2016 by wonkypolicywonk

To their credit – and that is not something I tend to say very often – Tory ministers appear to have been stung into action by revelations that large, profitable companies such as B&Q, Morrisons, Tesco and Caffe Nero are … Continue reading →

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Workers thank their lucky stars for the Workers’ Party. Oh, hang on …

Posted on March 16, 2016 by wonkypolicywonk

Every now and then, someone in the Labour Party has a pop at the Tories for not prosecuting enough employers for breaching the national minimum wage. When he was shadow business secretary, Chuka Umunna was not averse to skating on this … Continue reading →

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