Government consultation on abolition of statutory questionnaire procedure

Reps should note that at the time of writing, it is still possible to send a statutory questionnaire to your employer. However, the government is consulting on abolishing this procedure, citing complaints from employers’ lobby group the British Chamber of Commerce that employers find it “long and technical”, that it is often used as a “fishing expedition” by individuals who “do not reasonably have any cause for complaint” and that it fails to fulfil what the government claims was its “intended purpose”, namely encouraging the settlement of disputes.