Employment

This call for evidence sets out the issues on which Margaret Beels, the Director of Labour Market Enforcement, seeks evidence to inform her strategy for 2024 to 2025.

This consultation focuses on how holiday entitlement is calculated for part-year workers and workers with irregular hours. The consultation seeks to understand the implications of the judgment on different sectors including agency workers who have complex contractual arrangements. 

This call for evidence sets out the issues on which the Director of Labour Market Enforcement would like to receive evidence to inform her labour market enforcement strategy 2023 to 2024.

The director is seeking stakeholder evidence on emerging issues around compliance and enforcement in the UK labour market.

In a follow up to its wider inquiry into DWP support for employment during Covid the Committee will question senior DWP officials more closely specifically on the ‘Kickstart scheme’.

The Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy launched a consultation on a proposal to extend the ban on exclusivity clauses to contracts where the workers’ guaranteed weekly income is less than the Lower Earnings Limit, currently £120 a week.

The intention is to allow low-income workers who are not able to secure the number of hours they would like from their current employer to seek additional work elsewhere.