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The recently published Small Business Enterprise and Employment Bill includes a number of \"scales\"<\/a>employment law initiatives amongst its extensive provisions. \u00a0It is designed to make the UK the most attractive place to start, finance and grow a business.<\/p>\n

The Employment The Bill will introduce measures to;<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2022 Reform Whistleblowing procedures to achieve a consistent standard of best practice for handling disclosures and provide greater reassurance to the whistle-blower that action is being taken by the prescribed person and as a result increase the confidence in the actions of the prescribed person. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u2022 Deter business non-payment of employment tribunal awards by creating strong financial consequences of non-payment.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2022 Reduce the delays in Employment Tribunals caused by frequent and short notice postponements, and addressing the costs arising from short notice postponements. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u2022 increase the penalties imposed on employers that underpay their workers in breach of the national minimum wage legislation on a per worker basis. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u2022 Make exclusivity clauses in zero hours contracts invalid and unenforceable so that no one is tied into a contract without any guarantee of paid work. This will enable employers and employees to benefit from the flexibility of zero hours contracts whilst addressing abuse of these contracts. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u2022 recover exit payments from public sector employees that leave and re-join the same part of the public sector organisation within a year<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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