ESCAPING THE STRAIT JACKET – Ten regulatory reforms to create jobs
Beyond deficit reduction, the number one economic and social priority for the Coalition should be to encourage job creation. In ESCAPING THE STRAIT JACKET – Ten regulatory reforms to create jobs, published on Wednesday 16 November by the Centre for Policy Studies, Dominic Raab MP details ten regulatory reforms to encourage job creation in the private sector.
Raab:
Having consulted business groups as well as a number of legal experts in the field, Raab outlines 10 specific policy areas where progress could be made:
REFORM OF DOMESTIC REGULATION
1) Exclude small businesses from a range of regulations, including: minimum wage legislation for those under 21; the extension of flexible working regulations; requests for time off for training; and pension auto-enrolment.
2) Create a new ‘no fault dismissal’ for underperforming employees after two years of employment, which would work in parallel to ‘unfair dismissal’ (unlike the Beecroft proposal)
3) Strengthen the power of tribunals to strike out claims (or parts of claims) which have no reasonable prospect of success, and increasing the deposits required for weak claims.
4) Install a qualified registrar to pre-vet tribunal claims.
5) Promote greater use of alternative dispute resolution.
6) Encourage flexible working for senior employees by enabling ‘protected conversations’ with workers aged 65 and over.
7) Require a majority of support from balloted members for any strike in the emergency and transport sectors.
REFORM OF EU REGULATION
8) Reform TUPE to encourage business rescues and to promote successful business models.
9) Abolish the Agency Workers Regulations 2010.
10) Abolish the Working Time Regulations 1998.
The full pamphlet (16 pages) can be downloaded from here.
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