Consultation Responses

The REC External Relations team responds to all Government and EU consultations on employment and labour market policy. Official responses are based on the feedback from members and on the recommendations of the REC Employment Policy Committee and the REC Diversity Forum (for all policy consultations linked to equal opportunities and discrimination). The REC Board formally agrees policy positions. Regional and Sector Group meetings are also used to generate member input and to inform the final response.

Archived consultations:

August 2010 - Workplace Pension Reforms review

July 2010 - CRB Disclosures and the ISA

July 2010 - Revised guidance on safeguarding in Education

July 2010 - Consultation on the proposed regulations on duty of co-operation

June 2010 - EHRC Inquiry into recruitment and employment in the meat and poultry processing sector 

May 2010 - Migration Advisory Committee - London weighting 

May 2010 - National Minimum Wage workers: travel and subsistence expenses schemes

March 2010 - EHRC draft statutory guidance and code for the Equality Act 

February 2010 - Protecting Vulnerable Groups - Scotland 

December 2009 -  Information sharing between bodies responsible for enforcing workplace rights

November 2009 - Workplace pension reform – completing the picture 

October 2009 -  Proposals for promoting greater transparency in the private sector: A consultation on improving gender equality in the workplace

October 2009 - False self-employment in construction: taxation of workers  

September 2009 - Equality Bill: Policy proposals for specific duties (REC position paper) 

September 2009 - Conduct of Employment Agencies and Employment Businesses Regulations 2003 Consultation (Northern Ireland) 

September 2009 - Submission to the Low Pay Commission 

August 2009 - Comments on the Independent Safeguarding Authority Referral Guidance 

August 2009 - The simplification of employment and skills services 

July 2009 - GLA and Supermarket Protocol 

July 2009 - Implementing the Agency Workers Directive 

July 2009 - Draft scheme order and rules for the Personal Accounts Delivery Authority  

June 2009 -  Conduct of Employment Agencies and Employment Businesses Regulations 2003 Consultation

June 2009 -  Review of Tier 1, Tier 2 and dependants under the Points Based System for immigration

May 2009 - The Pensions (Automatic Enrolment) Regulations 2009 

January 2009 - Gangmaster Licensing Authoity Fees 2009 - 2010 

October 2008 - Gangmasters Licensing Authority Licensing Standards 

October 2008 - Gangmaster Licensing Authority Exclusion Regulations  

October 2008 - Removal of Travel Dispensations for Temporary Workers

September 2008 - Time to Train  

September 2008 - Northern Ireland Enforcement and Inspection  

August 2008 - VAT Staff Hire Concession 

July 2008 -  National Identity Card Scheme  

June 2008 - Framework for Health and Social Care 

April 2008 - Migration Advisory Committee 

March 2008 - Youth Mobility Scheme

February 2008 - Independant Safeguarding Authority

January 2008 - Welfare Reform

December 2007 - Gangmasters Licensing Fees

September 2007 - Discrimination law review

September 2007 - Simplifying business support

August 2007 - Simplifiying Immigration law

August 2007 - National Minimum Wage

August 2007 - Illegal Working

July 2007 - In work, Better off consultation

June 2007 - Overseas trained teachers

April 2007 - Managed Serviced Companies

April 2007 - Money Laundering

March 2007 - Establishment of a Migration Advisory Committee

May 2007 - EU Commission Green Paper on Labour Reform