This consultation seeks views on a range of proposals to improve the effectiveness of the enforcement of employment rights to protect workers from exploitation.  It will be of interest to employers, employees, trade unions and business representative bodies.

The proposals include:

• establishing a statutory Director of Labour Market Enforcement
• creating a new offence of an aggravated breach of labour market legislation
• increasing intelligence and data sharing between the existing enforcement bodies
• widening the remit, increasing the powers and changing the name of the Gangmasters Licensing Authority to enable it to deal with serious exploitation

This consultation closes at 7 December 2015 11:45pm.  Further details can be found on the Gov.UK website - https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/labour-market-exploitation-improving-enforcement