Abstract
Last July, the Government presented a Green Paper to Parliament which proposed further reform of labour relations law. ' Although no Employment Bill was referred to in the Queen's Speech,2 the Government made it clear that they do intend eventually to implement in full the programme of reform in the Citizen's Charter,3 which will include legislation based on some of the proposals in the Green PapeP; but at the time of writing no Bill has been published.5 In this article I want to discuss the Green Paper proposals, not only because it would be foolish to suppose that the Tories may not win the forthcoming election, but also because they reveal some of the conceptions that underlie the Government's political thinking in general. I shall begin with a short account of the Government's envisaged reforms, before considering certain of them in greater detail. Turning first to the stated aims of the proposals, the Green Paper talks of the Act consolidating the objectives behind the legislation passed over the last eleven years, which are said to have been threefold:
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