Provisions in the Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Act 2013 coming into force from 25 June 2013

According to section 103, the following employment law provisions in the Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Act 2013 will come into force on 25 June 2013:

• Composition of Employment Appeal Tribunal (section 12).
• Dismissal for political opinions or affiliation: no qualifying period of employment needed (section 13).
• Power by order to increase or decrease limit of unfair dismissal compensatory award (section 15).
• Whistleblowing: disclosures not protected unless believed to be made in the public interest (section 17).
• Whistleblowing: removal of good faith test and power to reduce compensation where disclosure not made in good faith (section 18).
• Tribunal procedure: miscellaneous (section 21).
• Indexation of amounts: timing and rounding (section 22).

Other employment provisions with later implementation dates are:

• Settlement agreements and confidentiality of negotiations before termination of employment (likely summer 2013).
• ACAS pre-claim conciliation (likely April 2014).
• Power of employment tribunal to impose financial penalties on employers for aggravating behaviour (likely April 2014).
• Decisions by legal officers (unknown implementation date).
• Whistleblowing: vicarious liability for employer for worker subjected to detriment by co-worker (unknown implementation date).
• Repeal of the third party harassment provisions in the Equality Act 2010 (unknown implementation date).
• Abolition of the discrimination questionnaire procedure in the Equality Act 2010 (unknown implementation date).
• Prohibition of caste discrimination (likely 2014/15).