It is good from an employee perspective. For example, in a country where a lot of people aren't saving enough for retirement, there is logic in saying that employers must make pensions available to their staff as part of their compensation package.

The problem, as always with these things, is that this only helps you if you're employed in the first place. If the burdens of taking on a new employee, particularly the first one, are too high, then that lifestyle business run by its founders will remain a lifestyle business run by its founders, possibly for years or even forever.

Similarly, if you're a customer shopping for clothes online at the moment, it's great that UK consumer protection law requires vendors to give you 14 days after delivery to change your mind and cancel the purchase, and the vendor must accept the return without charge if you do. You can buy multiple sizes or colours to try things on, or just try a few different styles to see what you like, and then send the rest back, and all it costs you is a bit of postage.

It's less good as a merchant, when the reality is that a significant fraction of your returned items will come back unfit for resale and unless you can prove they didn't reach the customer already in that state you'll still be on the hook for the refund. Even for goods that do come back in as-new condition, you'll still have to go through the whole restocking process and you'll be missing that stock for as much as 28 days. Generous return policies didn't matter quite as much a few years ago when the law was introduced, as most people were still shopping for their clothes in bricks and mortar stores and would try things on in-store before buying. Right now, with fashion retailers going bust all over anyway, this surely isn't helping.