Recommendation 8

To ensure long-term enforcement of the new duties on employers introduced in the Employment Rights Bill, the Government should revisit the regime for enforcing equality law and harm against individual protected characteristics, including setting out how the Fair Work Agency will work with the EHRC where their responsibilities overlap. As part of its implementation of employment rights reform, we recommend that Government review and consult on the future of equality law enforcement with a targeted focus on areas where enforcement may be improved to better protect workers from harassment and abuse on the basis of protected characteristics. This targeted review and consultation should consider areas including (a) resourcing, (b) the scope of statutory powers; and (c) the role of new enforcement bodies. (Recommendation, Paragraph 47) 37