Employment Rights Act risks being ‘handbrake on hiring’

Ben Willmott, head of public policy at the CIPD
Ben Willmott, head of public policy at the CIPD
More than a third (37%) of British businesses plan to reduce the recruitment of permanent staff due to at least one or more of the Employment Rights Act’s (ERA) key reforms, while overall hiring intentions remain at their lowest level on record, outside the first year of the pandemic. The latest quarterly survey from the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) - carried out among more than 2,000 UK employers - asked about hiring plans and incidence of workplace conflict due to the legislation which give day one st... You can carry on reading TheBusinessDesk.com for free, but you have reached the maximum number of pages an unregistered user can view. To register for an account, click here or login below...
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