Business secretary Grant Shapps has revealed that plans for a “single enforcement body” for labour laws had been put on the backburner.
It would have brought together three current regulators under one roof and had a remit to impose large fines on rogue employers.
The body was a key element of Boris Johnson’s flagship employment bill, which has now been officially killed off after a long period of being left off the legislation programme. The scrapped bill, announced in December 2019, was a response to Matthew Taylor’s Good Work Plan. Taylor himself had warned as early as February 2021 that the government had “lost interest” in the reforms.
