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HANSARDEmployment Rights Bill (Fourth sitting)Q What does that look like? Mike Clancy: It probably looks like ensuring that the best practice from employers now—who allow us access to their intranet and to electronic and…28 Nov 2024HANSARDEmployment Rights Bill (Fourth sitting)Q You mentioned the 20% unionisation rate. Do you have a target that you want to see? Andy Prendergast: They key thing for us is that everyone who ultimately wants to join a trade…28 Nov 2024HANSARDEmployment Rights Bill (Fourth sitting)Q Good afternoon to the witnesses. You are professors of law, but we have heard from other witnesses that the Bill has a lot of holes in it and is very reliant on secondary…28 Nov 2024HANSARDEmployment Rights Bill (Fourth sitting)Q I have two more points, if I may. First, clearly, some of the most striking evidence we heard that did not agree with much of the Bill was from Luke Johnson and Michael Lorimer…28 Nov 2024HANSARDEmployment Rights Bill (Fourth sitting)Q I am sure you will have seen that the Regulatory Policy Committee has been quite damning of the impact assessments done on the Bill. You said that it has been delivered at…28 Nov 2024HANSARDEmployment Rights Bill (Fourth sitting)Q I have a straightforward question that will probably provoke some debate. Impact assessments of any bit of legislation are clearly hugely important to the Equality and Human…28 Nov 2024HANSARDEmployment Rights Bill (Fourth sitting)Q I appreciate that, from the perspective of the Department of Business and Trade, there might be a more clearcut answer, but from your perspective, Mr Kirkpatrick, given your…28 Nov 2024HANSARDEmployment Rights Bill (Fourth sitting)Q I am slightly bemused by having a member of the Committee also answering questions. Many of the things that I and my colleagues from the official Opposition will be asking you…28 Nov 2024HANSARDEmployment Rights Bill (Fourth sitting)Q Thank you for that answer; we will explore that more in coming weeks. I accept the political narrative of doing something in 100 days. That is well-established for Governments…28 Nov 2024HANSARDEmployment Rights Bill (Fourth sitting)Q Good afternoon, doctor. Given the work you do, which you have just described, what is your assessment of what the Bill will do for women and men in the workplace? Dr Stephenson:…28 Nov 2024HANSARDEmployment Rights Bill (Fourth sitting)Q I hesitate to interrupt you, but can you give us an indication of where you think statutory sick pay should sit? What should its value be? Dr Stephenson: At least at the level…28 Nov 2024HANSARDEmployment Rights Bill (Third sitting)Q 91 Good morning to the witnesses. This quite far-reaching Bill will have a significant impact on your direct employees and the employees of the businesses you represent. We…28 Nov 2024HANSARDEmployment Rights Bill (Third sitting)Q What would be the ideal probationary period? Claire Costello: I think it is more about the fact that the Bill will drive more tribunals if people feel that they have a route to…28 Nov 2024HANSARDEmployment Rights Bill (Third sitting)Q Has the Co-op done any modelling of what the provisions in this Bill would cost the whole business? Claire Costello: Not yet, because there is not enough detail for us to do…28 Nov 2024HANSARDEmployment Rights Bill (Third sitting)Q This is my final question for you, and then I will bring in the others for the same set of questions. Do you believe, in principle, that the Bill will cost the Co-op money?…28 Nov 2024HANSARDEmployment Rights Bill (Third sitting)Q Thank you. Helen Dickinson? Helen Dickinson: Thank you very much for this opportunity. We are probably going to end up violently agreeing with each other, but let us see how we…28 Nov 2024HANSARDEmployment Rights Bill (Third sitting)Please do. Helen Dickinson : A reference period is conceptually a good idea—the question is whether it is too short. I know that some people who appeared in front of the Committee…28 Nov 2024HANSARDEmployment Rights Bill (Fourth sitting)Q I hope my last point might be more consensual as we move forward. I was very sympathetic to one of the sides of this coin before the Committee started, and the evidence today…28 Nov 2024HANSARDEmployment Rights Bill (Third sitting)Q There has been a lot in the media, and I have seen this in my constituency, about workers in retail and convenience stores facing unacceptable abuse. Shoplifting is particularly…28 Nov 2024HANSARDEmployment Rights Bill (Third sitting)Q I am sure you are aware that the independent Regulatory Policy Committee has found the impact assessments on the Bill to be, in its words, “not fit for purpose”. Are you…28 Nov 2024