A new era for employment regulation

Patrick Walshe

The Workplace Relations Commission is due to begin its work next month. This is the most dramatic change to the employment regulation landscape in a generation.

Employee rights have developed in a patchwork fashion over the last 50 years. During that time, new statutory enforcement bodies have been created and the result is that different rights must be enforced in different forums.

The system can, with some justification, be regarded as unnecessarily complex ...