Various - see notes below
In December 2003 the DTI announced that it will introduce domestic employment regulations for which it has responsibility on two dates each year: April 6th (the start of the tax year) and October 1st (the annual date on which the minimum wage is revised).
Click here to go to a list of employment law regulations coming into force on 1st and 6th April 2008 (as at 22nd March 2008).
Apart from mainly statutory proposals noted below, users of this website are likely to be interested in case law developments expected during 2008. The link provided here to Michael Rubenstein - key cases 2008 goes to notes prepared by the eminent editor of IRLR for his February 2008 lecture on this aspect.
There follows below an index of links to notes in this program on some of the more important employment law topics currently subject to proposed changes:
| SUBJECT | click for MAIN RELEVANT NOTES | proposed &/or likely implementation |
| Compensation limits | Compensation/2008 limit increases | 1st February (annually) |
| Corporate Manslaughter | Acts of Parliament etc/Corporate Manslaughter and Corporate Homicide Act 2007 | 6th April 2008 |
| Dispute Resolution Procedures (proposals for abolition and/or replacement of the 2004 statutory rules) | Bills before Parliament/Employment Bill | probably by Spring/Summer 2009 |
| Sex Discrimination Act 1975 amendments (as required following the March 2007 High Court judgment in Equal Opportunities Commission v DTI) | Sex discrimination/2005 amendments | 6th April 2008 |
| Holiday entitlement | Holidays/2007 proposals | 1st October 2007 and 1st April 2009 |
| Illegal working and immigration | Immigration/illegal workers | 29th February 2008 |
| Information and Consultation | Consultation with employees/Domestic Works Council proposals | 6th April 2005 to 6th April 2008 |
| Maternity and Adoption Leave and Pay (extension to 52 weeks) | Statutory maternity pay (''SMP'') and/or maternity allowance and/or Statutory adoption pay | if expected week of childbirth/adoption begins on or after 1st April 2010 |
| Additional Paternity Leave and Pay (introduction of) | statutory paternity pay (''SPP'') | if expected week of childbirth/adoption begins on or after 1st April 2010 |
| Minimum Wage increases | Minimum Wage/2006 and 2007 increases | 1st October (annually) |
| Partnership law | Partnerships/Partnerships Bill | draft only - not known |
| Pensions for local authority employees | New Local Government Pension Scheme | 1st April 2008. |
| Services Directive 2006/123/EC | Freedom of movement of workers/a general introductory note | final date for implementation is 28th December 2009. |
| Temporary/agency workers (amendments to 2003 regulations) | Employment Agencies/2003 regulations | 6th April 2008 |
| Temporary/agency workers | European Law/Directives etc/agency workers directive (draft) | not known (shelved in autumn 2005, but under review) |
| Working time - doctors in training | Working Time Regulations/doctors | 1st August 2007 (interim stage - 56 hrs max pw); 1st August 2009 (final stage - 48 hrs max pw) |
| Working time regulations - road transport | Working Time Regulations/HGV and PSV drivers | 4th April 2005 (for self-employed drivers, 23rd March 2009) |