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One of the recommendations of the Gibbons Report, which favoured repeal of the statutory procedures, was to “simplify employment law”. In fact, work on this has already been started in what used to be the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI), along with a review of discrimination law with a view to having one, consolidated piece of legislation. While we can all say “amen” to this particular prayer, it remains to be seen how thoroughly this can be carried out in practice. One suggestion might be simply to pass legislation repealing every fourth word in the current statute law, on the basis that it would then be 25% shorter but 100% as unintelligible.
Of course, the first simplification is to get rid of the statutory procedures and apparently (to its credit) the DTI’s successor is standing firm against any backsliding views in the consultation that perhaps they were not so bad after all, and sticking with the Gibbons line. As an
