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HANSARDEmployment Rights Bill (Fifth sitting)The hon. Gentleman makes his point well, but I fundamentally disagree that these are in any way, shape or form wrecking amendments. Where we have common ground and where we do…03 Dec 2024HANSARDEmployment Rights Bill (Fifth sitting)I understand the hon. Gentleman’s point about umbrella companies. He almost tempts me to get on to one of my hobby horses, which is IR35, but that would be way out of scope, so I…03 Dec 2024HANSARDEmployment Rights Bill (Fifth sitting)I am grateful to my hon. Friend for that input. He is absolutely right, and his argument hits the nail on the head. The point we are trying to get across through the amendments in…03 Dec 2024HANSARDEmployment Rights Bill (Fifth sitting)I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman. I will not seek to mislead the Committee by saying that I am across the Presidents Club case, but I am aware of the Manning case. Undoubtedly…03 Dec 2024HANSARDEmployment Rights Bill (Fifth sitting)I am grateful to the hon. Lady, who makes an accurate and fair point. I repeat that harassment of any form, sexual or whatever, is deeply and totally unacceptable and wrong, and…03 Dec 2024HANSARDEmployment Rights Bill (Fifth sitting)I did not say that every business is offering flexible working. I said that, having visited businesses in my constituency, I am yet to find a problem around any business’s…03 Dec 2024HANSARDEmployment Rights Bill (Fifth sitting)I understand the point the hon. Gentleman is trying to make, but the Opposition’s concern is that the burdens that the Bill’s provisions—including this one—place on many…03 Dec 2024HANSARDEmployment Rights Bill (Fifth sitting)I am almost grateful for the Minister’s intervention. He was very perceptive to note the minor clerical error in the amendment that was previously submitted. That has now been…03 Dec 2024HANSARDEmployment Rights Bill (Fifth sitting)I know where the Minister is going.03 Dec 2024HANSARDEmployment Rights Bill (Fifth sitting)It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Ms Vaz, on this bright and breezy December morning. It will be the new year by the time we finish our consideration of the…03 Dec 2024HANSARDEmployment Rights Bill (Fifth sitting)I beg to move amendment 137, in clause 1, page 2, line 6, at end insert— “ 27ABA Reference to an employer (1) For the purposes of Chapters 2 to 4 of this Part, references to an…03 Dec 2024HANSARDEmployment Rights Bill (Fifth sitting)I am clear that it should be 500 or fewer. I will not pretend to guess how some of the misdrafting may have occurred; it happens to all parties when they are in government and in…03 Dec 2024HANSARDEmployment Rights Bill (Sixth sitting)I am very happy to do so once I finish this train of thought—we are getting far more debate in Committee than we do in the main Chamber. We have to find the balance, where we do…03 Dec 2024HANSARDEmployment Rights Bill (Sixth sitting)No, I do not accept that. It is not helpful to see this as either/or. As I explained, there is a symbiotic relationship between businesses and their workers—their employees.…03 Dec 2024HANSARDTopical QuestionsThe owners of a 380-acre farm in my constituency have worked out that they would have to spend 40 years paying back the money that they would have to borrow because of the changes…03 Dec 2024HANSARDEmployment Rights Bill (Sixth sitting)The hon. Gentleman is right about the principle of notice for holiday—that is quite clearcut. Holiday is pretty much always planned, although there are circumstances in which…03 Dec 2024HANSARDEmployment Rights Bill (Sixth sitting)I will take one more intervention.03 Dec 2024HANSARDEmployment Rights Bill (Sixth sitting)Fundamentally, I agree that it is not the worker’s fault either—I am absolutely at one with that. I made it very clear that I do not want to see anyone turn up for work only to be…03 Dec 2024HANSARDEmployment Rights Bill (Sixth sitting)I do understand the hon. Lady’s point. Nobody wants to see people turned away as they turn up for work, with their employer saying, “Sorry, no work today.” That is not a position…03 Dec 2024HANSARDEmployment Rights Bill (Sixth sitting)Oh, here we go. It is multiple choice.03 Dec 2024