Employment Bill undergoes controversial amendments

• Author:
• Louise Westby

The Public Committee in the House of Commons has proposed a number of controversial amendments to the Employment Bill.

These proposed amendments seem to be rather drastic in nature and there is much speculation that some are unlikely to be approved and retained in the Bill.

The most controversial amendments are:

the losing party in Employment Tribunal proceedings having to pay the costs of the winning party; an award of up to 25% of a claim to a respondent where the claimant’s actio... (142 more words)

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