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THE EMPLOYMENT RELATIONS ACT 1999
Fairness at Work
Commencement
Eight commencement
orders have been made since the Act received Royal Assent on 27
July 1999 which have brought the majority of the Act's provisions
into force. Click here for further
details of these Statutory Instruments.
For information
on individual measures in the Act, click on the following links:
Review
The Government published a consultation document seeking views on
its proposals for reform of the Act. The Government
response  (180Kb)
[Welsh version (165Kb)]
to this consultation is now available. It also published draft
regulations (57Kb)
to prohibit blacklisting of trade unionists.
Background
The Act is based on the measures proposed in the White Paper Fairness at Work (Cm 3968).
Explanatory Notes to the Act are available from The Stationery Office (telephone 0345 02 34 74 quoting ISBN 0-10-562699-6).
Further details
can be found in our short summary of the
Act  (26Kb)
 Documents
in pdf format, indicated with a
can be opened with Adobe Acrobat reader, available free of charge.
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| Useful links |
Contact points
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Last updated
6 January 2004
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