Consultation outcome

Employment agencies and employment businesses: consultation on reforming the regulatory framework

• From: Department for Business, Innovation & Skills
• Published: 17 January 2013
• Last updated: 12 July 2013 — See all updates

This was published under the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

This consultation has concluded

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Recruitment sector legislation: consultation on reforming the regulatory framework for employment agencies and employment businesses - responses

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Reforming the regulatory framework for the recruitment sector: government response to consultation

Ref: BIS 13/1021

PDF, 155 KB, 31 pages

Detail of outcome

The government will remove some regulatory burdens from business but continue to protect people who are looking for work.

We have published stakeholders’ individual consultation responses, where permission had been given to do so. We received permission to publish 137 of the 286 responses received.

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Original consultation

Summary

Sought views on when it is appropriate for the government to impose rules on the recruitment sector.

This consultation ran from
17 January 2013 to 11:45pm on 11 April 2013

Consultation description

This consultation sought views on when it is appropriate for the government to impose rules on the recruitment sector, and when it is more appropriate for the sector and marketplace to decide the rules for themselves. We also asked for views on enforcement and whether individual enforcement would be more effective than the current government enforcement regime.

The government has considered the responses to the consultation and intends to proceed with the proposal to replace the current legislation with a new regulatory framework. We will remove some of the regulatory burden from business but will continue to protect people who are looking for work. We also intend to move to a more targeted enforcement regime. In future we will concentrate our resources to help the most vulnerable workers who need protection.

Documents

Recruitment sector legislation: consultation on reforming the regulatory framework for employment agencies and employment businesses

Ref: BIS/13/530

PDF, 403 KB, 39 pages

Recruitment sector legislation: consultation on reforming the regulatory framework for employment agencies and employment businesses - impact assessment

Ref: BIS/13/531

PDF, 509 KB, 52 pages

Published 17 January 2013
Last updated 12 July 2013 + show all updates

1. 12 July 2013

   Government response published

2. 17 January 2013

   First published.