unintended

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Former Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner’s Workers’ Rights Bill in 2025 had the unintended effect of discouraging employers from making permanent hires and instead incentivizing them to take workers on as sub-contractors.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 15, 2026

New laws could lead to unintended consequences for other vital democratic interests that may outweigh uncertain benefits.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 27, 2026

She has said the changes would better align capital requirements with actual risk and correct unintended consequences from earlier postcrisis rules.

From Barron's • Mar. 27, 2026

Baroness Lloyd added the amendment "could risk unintended consequences and it would mean acting before listening to what the consultation tells us and what parents and children need".

From BBC • Mar. 25, 2026

His life seems at once to be a tale by Horatio Alger, a fulfillment of the American dream, and a warn- ing about unintended consequences.

From "Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal" by Eric Schlosser