The Director of Labour Market Enforcement, Margaret Beels OBE, has launched an open Call for Evidence for the 2025/26 Labour Market Enforcement Strategy. She is asking for views from stakeholders on the following:
- Employment Rights Enforcement Priorities and Governance – what the priorities for employment rights enforcement should be as we transition to the Fair Work Agreement (FWA) and what should be best practice in sharing data and providing transparency.
- Communication and Engagement - how do stakeholders want to engage with and be engaged by the FWA. What channels might increase awareness and where workers are aware of their rights and business their obligations. What works and where there should more join-up?
- Resourcing and prioritisation - what stakeholders see as the focus for the three enforcement bodies now to ensure the FWA achieves sustained and lasting improvements in employer compliance and the balance of prioritisation between compliance measures in helping employers do the right thing and punishing deliberate non-compliance. The FWA will cover some new areas, for example holiday pay – what views/evidence do stakeholders have on non-compliance?
- Moving towards an FWA - What do stakeholders value about the present practices for the three enforcement bodies, what should be stopped, started or continued.
Respondents are welcome to submit documents (for example, research, reports or media articles) referred to in evidence. It is not expected that stakeholders should answer every question.
There is more about how to respond here: Labour Market Enforcement Strategy 2025 to 2026: call for evidence - GOV.UK.
Please send evidence to [email protected] and contact the office at the same address with any questions.
The deadline for responses is 13 December 2024.
