General Government News
Unpaid Work Experience (Prohibition) Bill 30 June 2017
The Unpaid Work Experience (Prohibition) Bill will ensure the prohibition of unpaid work experience for a period exceeding four weeks with the same employer.
The Bill, which was first announced in June 2016, has begun its passage again through the Houses of Parliament.
Geographical extent - When the Bill becomes the Unpaid Work Experience (Prohibition) Act 2017, it will extend to the whole of the UK.
The Unpaid Work Experience (Prohibition) Bill will amend the National Minimum Wage Act 1998 to ensure persons participating in a scheme designed to provide work experience, for a continuous or non-continuous period which exceeds four weeks, are paid beyond this point at least the relevant minimum wage rate. The Regulations provide that a person undertaking work experience who has ceased to be of compulsory school age, but has not attained the age of 26, is eligible to receive the national minimum wage at the rate specified for workers of the person’s age.
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Consultation on EEA-workers in the UK labour market 7 August 2017
A call for evidence has been published on the economic and social impacts of the UK’s exit from the EU and also on how the UK’s immigration system should be aligned with a modern industrial strategy.
In July 2017, the Government commissioned the Migration Advisory Committee (MAC) to advise on the economic and social impacts of the UK’s exit from the European Union and also on how the UK’s immigration system should be aligned with a modern industrial strategy1. This call for evidence is accompanied by a briefing note outlining some preliminary analysis of the UK labour market and other countries’ migration systems to kick-start the call for evidence. The note does not make any policy recommendations or provide any conclusions; it asks questions rather than answers them on three topics:
• EEA Migration Trends • Recruitment Practices, Training & Skills • Economic, Social and Fiscal Impacts
The consultation seeks views and evidence from anyone with relevant knowledge, expertise or experience to help inform the MAC response. The MAC strongly welcomes views from a wide range of interested parties from all parts of the UK (e.g. businesses, employers, recruiters, trade unions, academics, think tanks, representative bodies, government departments, etc).
Please respond to questions that are relevant to your expertise; respondents are not expected to answer every single question. Comments and feedback on any of the issues raised are welcomed.
The consultation closes on 27 October 2017.
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