Employment law

Prime Minister, David Cameron, last week stated that the government will shortly consult on ‘protected conversations’ to enable employers and employees to sit down and have frank conversations about performance / on-going employment  without the employer fearing a claim for constructive dismissal.

He confirmed that the government will be introducing fees for bringing employment tribunal claims and will be increasing the unfair dismissal qualifying period from one year to two years with effect from April. He also spoke about the untapped potential of women entrepreneurs.

He said:

“We need this to be a country where more people think ‘I start my own business and I can sell to the world.

“There is so much untapped potential in the people of Britain – and that particularly goes for the women of Britain.

“We know that if women were setting up new businesses at the same rate as men we would have 150,000 more start-ups in the UK each year. We’ve got to help overcome that gap between dreaming about being an entrepreneur and becoming one.

“The markets are there to be tapped. The deals are there to be done. The opportunities are there to be capitalised on. Now together we must seize them.”