Regulating supply chains

Abstract

The widened definition of both ‘worker’ and ‘employer’ in chapter six on the employment relationship and the broadened spread of obligations in relation to equality at work and health and safety at work in those chapters will undoubtedly do much to ensure that decent labour standards apply to workers and employers in the UK. The re-establishment of sectoral collective bargaining advocated for in chapters three and four will impose minimum agreed terms and conditions across whole industries. But these measures may not capture all whose work contributes to the production of UK goods and services, particularly where the employer has arranged for the work to be done overseas.