Tangled in red tape

According to a survey of senior
business managers and company
owners carried out by employment
law and health and safety legislation
specialist, Bibby Consulting and
Support, red tape is “crippling”
businesses and it is felt that the
coalition government is unlikely to
do anything about it.

Two thirds of the 424 respondents
to the Bibby Employer Survey felt
that many aspects of human
resource (HR) management were
becoming too complex for them to
manage. Company after company
put the blame on stifling
bureaucracy, with frustration and
anger directed at “red tape and time
spent on unnecessary matters rather
than running a business”. Senior
business figures referred with dismay
and resignation to “forever changing
rules and regulations”, a “minefield
of employment law”, and “crippling
legislation”.