16 October 2002

Commentary from Daniel Barnett

Consultation on Commencement Dates

The government has issued a consultation document in response to the recommendation of the Better Regulation Taskforce that commencement dates for employment legislation should be harmonised so as to have just one or two 'implementation dates' each year. Presumably the DTI misses the irony of its issuing a consultation document to discuss reducing red tape!

LINK: http://www.dti.gov.uk/er/commencement.htm

Also, the DTI has published two more guides to the law (and these are quite excellent): one dealing with whistleblowing, the other with rights to notice and reasons for dismissal.

LINKS: http://www.dti.gov.uk/er/individual/pidguide-pl502.htm and http://www.dti.gov.uk/er/individual/reasons-pl707.htm

Daniel Barnett

16th October 2002

Daniel Barnett is a barrister at 2 Gray's Inn Square Chambers

www.danielbarnett.co.uk