Have the aims of successive laws on employment protection been achieved?

To begin with, we will take a close look at employment. Then we find what it covers mostly, on the one hand, is the relationship between individual employee and his employer and, on the other hand, is the regulation of the activities of association of employees or trade unions; described respectively as individual and collective employment law. Both areas have been subjects to extensive Parliamentary intervention in recent years. Moreover, individual employment law principally aims to increase protection for employees against unfair treatment and particularly unfair dismissal by employer and against sex and racial discrimination.

Not until today the main legislation governing individual employment rights were contained in the Employment Right Act 1996, the Employment Industrial Act 1996 and the Employment Relationship Act 1999. There is also separate legislation dealing with Equal pay and various forms of discrimination.
An interesting point is that almost all aspects of employmen...