The UK government is planning to scrap or amend more than 3,000 regulations.
David Cameron gloated that he has already amended the “crazy” Equality Act that means people cannot sue their employer if they are “insulted” by a customer.
The law was there to make sure that employers had a duty to protect their workers. Some 80,000 pages of environmental regulations will be ditched by March 2015.
Cameron added, “We’ve changed the law so that businesses are no longer automatically liable for an accident.”
The plans also include:
- Giving more businesses flexibility to decide whether their accounts should be audited.
- Cutting back on the rules on making people redundant.
- Cutting rules on disabled access for new buildings.
- Slashing building regulations.
The forthcoming Deregulation Bill will make one million self-employed people exempt from health and safety law altogether.
Reprinted with permission.