Employment regulation
At the start of Chapter 9 we explained that one of the jobs of government is to propose new legislation and to pilot it successfully through Parliament. It is through this process that most employment law is made and methods for its enforcement set. This is not, however, the only mechanism. Much UK employment law has a European origin and would in all likelihood not be on the UK statute book had it not been for the forty-six years that the UK was an EU member state. These regulations are found in UK statutes but do not originate with the UK government. Moreover, we also have a great deal of common law which helps to determine what happens in employing organisations and provides a legal forum in which disputes between ...
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