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If you’re reading this post at stealthemployed.com, which is a blog that simply reposts all of my stuff under a few big lucrative banner ads, then please visit the genuine site at http://blog.usefullyemployed.co.uk. That way you know that the guy that does the work, gets the visitors.
This is the chap’s information. Feel free to email or write to him to say what you think of him.
That email address again, just in case any spambots are watching, is jrobertson@farmersagent.com. I have now, and once again this is an idea I should myself have stolen from Nearly Legal long ago, put the licensing information for this blog’s content in the side bar.
I mean really, it’s not as if my stuff’s that good. Now where’s volume 12(2) of Atkin’s?
There’s something comforting and old-fashioned about the name.
The establishment of the Board, together with the introduction of a single telephone helpline to report sharp practice by employers, has been announced in this BERR press release.
A summary of the new measures is given:
- Establishing a Fair Employment Enforcement Board to drive continued progress towards effective collaboration between enforcement bodies including HMRC, the Employment Agencies Standards Inspectorate (EAS), the Gangmasters Licensing Authority and the Health and Safety Executive.
- A single telephone helpline to report abuses;
- The launch of a sustained campaign to raise awareness of employment rights issues and to encourage reporting;
- New legislation to empower joint agency working and information gathering;
- A boost to the Employment Agencies Standards Inspectorate, including a doubling of the number of inspectors and an awareness-raising campaign.
These changes are in addition to the new NMW powers in the forthcoming Employment Bill.
I can’t help but applaud these changes - the variety of enforcement agencies can be confusing to professionals, let alone lay people. Now when will something similar exist for employers?
