Employment Law Blog

In the space of a 3-week consultation period the new category of employer owner has become a new style “employee shareholder”, but for many the proposal remains half baked…

Andreas White and Roberta Draper discuss the employment law news of the season and whether the introduction of employee-owner contracts will really appeal.

On 20 September the MoJ released statistics for employment tribunal claims for the year ending 31 March 2012, showing a continued decline in tribunal claims. In total, 186,300 claims were made, a 15% fall on the previous year. 

What is interesting about the Government’s announcements today is that BIS does not appear to have changed course since the introduction of Michael Fallon into the Ministerial Team mix. Fallon was parachuted into the Department only last week with the Government reshuffle, as the “voice of business”, some would even say as a Tory spy, so as to keep an eye on Vince Cable, but what has been released today is very much what we have been expecting since before the summer break.