The Government has released a policy paper, ‘Smarter regulation to grow the economy’, detailing plans to change legislation in the future. One element which the policy paper focuses on is the Working Time Regulations.
The Working Time Regulations, which are derived from retained EU legislation, provide a number of valuable worker protections. However, some claim that these regulations place disproportionate burdens on business, specifically in relation to recording working hours and other administrative requirements, and we intend to reform them this year. The Government will be consulting on proposals to improve how these regulations work without affecting the rights that really matter to workers. The proposals include:
- removing retained EU case law that impose time-consuming and disproportionate requirements on business for working hour records to be kept for almost all members of the workforce.
- reducing the administrative burden and complexity of calculating holiday pay. We propose introducing rolled-up holiday pay, so that workers can receive their holiday pay with every payslip, and merging the current two separate leave entitlements into one pot of statutory annual leave, while maintaining the same amount of statutory leave entitlement overall
If you have any concerns with your holiday policy, please contact us at pals@sdworx.com. Read the full policy paper here.