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HANSARDEmployment Rights Bill (Sixteenth sitting)The clause will enable us to strengthen the protections against blacklisting. The Consulting Association scandal, in which thousands of union workers were blacklisted, underscored…07 Jan 2025HANSARDEmployment Rights Bill (Sixteenth sitting)This is a large group of measures, comprising clauses 54, 55 and 56 and new clauses 32, 33 and 43. Clause 54 seeks to repeal sections 2 and 3 of the Trade Union Act 2016 by…07 Jan 2025HANSARDEmployment Rights Bill (Sixteenth sitting)Our view was that the legislation was not required when it was introduced in 2016. There was no evidence at the time that there were issues with picketing, and there was already a…07 Jan 2025HANSARDEmployment Rights Bill (Sixteenth sitting)I will start by recognising the contribution of my hon. Friend the Member for Scarborough and Whitby; the reason we are debating this clause is the case of Fiona Mercer and the…07 Jan 2025HANSARDEmployment Rights Bill (Sixteenth sitting)The clause seeks to repeal the Strikes (Minimum Service Levels) Act 2023, which provides powers for the Government to make regulations to set minimum service levels during strike…07 Jan 2025HANSARDEmployment Rights Bill (Sixteenth sitting)The clause amends section 293 of the Trade Union and Labour Relations (Consolidation) Act 1992, with which I am sure all Members are now very familiar, to require that regulations…07 Jan 2025HANSARDEmployment Rights Bill (Fifteenth sitting)The clause is relatively simple in that it seeks to repeal section 15 of the Trade Union Act 2016 by amending the Trade Union and Labour Relations (Consolidation) Act 1992 to…07 Jan 2025HANSARDEmployment Rights Bill (Fifteenth sitting)Probation.07 Jan 2025HANSARDEmployment Rights Bill (Fifteenth sitting)Those are of course two entirely separate requirements. At the moment, trade union members can choose to opt out of contributing to the political fund at any time. Clause 48 sets…07 Jan 2025HANSARDEmployment Rights Bill (Fifteenth sitting)Just that I welcome the support from the shadow Minister, albeit for the wording rather than the spirit of the amendment. Amendment 72 agreed to. Amendment made: 73, in clause 46,…07 Jan 2025HANSARDEmployment Rights Bill (Fifteenth sitting)I beg to move amendment 74, in clause 46, page 51, line 4, at end insert— “(4A) ‘Workplace’ does not include any part of a workplace used as a dwelling.”. This amendment would…07 Jan 2025HANSARDEmployment Rights Bill (Fifteenth sitting)Proposed new section 70ZF(4)(a) of the Trade Union and Labour Relations (Consolidation) Act 1992 allows the Secretary of State to prescribe circumstances in which it would be…07 Jan 2025HANSARDEmployment Rights Bill (Fifteenth sitting)I acknowledge the points made by the shadow Minister, but of course, as he has already anticipated, my response is that all of that will be determined in secondary legislation…07 Jan 2025HANSARDEmployment Rights Bill (Sixteenth sitting)I am grateful to the shadow Minister for taking slightly less time than I did on this grouping. For the record, I am fully supportive of the Prime Minister’s action plans,…07 Jan 2025HANSARDEmployment Rights Bill (Sixteenth sitting)I am afraid that would be out of scope of the Bill Committee. I hear what the shadow Minister says. His essential argument is that we should be able to judge the actions of trade…07 Jan 2025HANSARDEmployment Rights Bill (Fifteenth sitting)Clause 46 formally provides trade unions with the right of access to workplaces where an access agreement is reached between a trade union and an employer following negotiation.…07 Jan 2025HANSARDEmployment Rights Bill (Fifteenth sitting)I am not sure that the shadow Minister wants me to check everything again, because it might lead to further amendments and we may have this debate repeatedly. I would gently push…07 Jan 2025HANSARDEmployment Rights Bill (Fifteenth sitting)The shadow Minister is of course right—we do need to get this right and engage with businesses and trade unions about the detail. That is what we intend to do. Question put and…07 Jan 2025HANSARDEmployment Rights Bill (Fifteenth sitting)The shadow Minister tempts me to set out the kind of detail that I really cannot supply at this stage. Clearly, a consultation document will ask a series of fairly broad…07 Jan 2025HANSARDEmployment Rights Bill (Sixteenth sitting)The shadow Minister asked why we cannot support new clauses 32 and 33. The simple answer is that there are already legislative protections in section 54(12) of the Employment…07 Jan 2025