Legislation – Employment Rights Act 2025
Part 5Enforcement of labour market legislation
Strategies and reports
94Labour market enforcement strategy
(1)
The Secretary of State must, before the beginning of each relevant three-year period (see subsection (6)), prepare and publish a labour market enforcement strategy for that period.
(2)
A labour market enforcement strategy is a document that—
(a)
sets out the Secretary of State’s assessment of—
(i)
the scale and nature of non-compliance with relevant labour market legislation during the period of three years ending immediately before the strategy period, and
(ii)
the likely scale and nature of such non-compliance during the strategy period,
(b)
contains a proposal for the strategy period setting out how enforcement functions of the Secretary of State are to be exercised, and
(c)
deals with any other matters which the Secretary of State considers appropriate.
(3)
The Secretary of State—
(a)
may, at any time during the strategy period, revise the labour market enforcement strategy, and
(b)
must publish any revised labour market enforcement strategy.
(4)
In preparing or revising a labour market enforcement strategy, the Secretary of State must consult the Advisory Board.
(5)
The Secretary of State must lay before Parliament and the Northern Ireland Assembly a copy of any strategy published under this section.
(6)
In this section—
“relevant three-year period” means—
(a)
the period of three years beginning with the next 1 April after the day on which this section comes into force;
(b)
each successive period of three years;
“strategy period”, in relation to a labour market enforcement strategy, means the period to which the strategy relates.