It’s here again, the second of the two days in the year when the government introduces new legislation and regulation and increases rates and allowances. Instead we could have been in Munich having some real fun.
Saturday saw the introduction of the long-awaited (and feared) Agency Workers Regulations. Opinion on them varies between them being a fundamental step in ensuring fairness in the workplace to one of the greatest threats to the UK’s reputation as being a friendly place for businesses to do, well, business. More on this in a later blog post, but here is the BBC’s report on it.

