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HANSARDEmployment 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 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 (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 (Sixteenth sitting)The clause seeks to reverse the effect of section 10 of the Trade Union Act 2016, thereby removing the requirement under section 220A of the Trade Union and Labour Relations…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 (Fifteenth sitting)There was a mix of responses there. We heard from the hon. Member for Torbay that the Liberal Democrats welcome the clause, I think the shadow Minister was generally supportive,…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 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)I am not sure that we need to know about the shadow Minister’s memberships. I have two points: there is not legislation requiring this, and when trade unions raise subscriptions…07 Jan 2025HANSARDEmployment Rights Bill (Fifteenth sitting)There is.07 Jan 2025HANSARDEmployment Rights Bill (Fifteenth sitting)Probation.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)The clause makes amendments to the statutory trade unions recognition process, which is administered by the Central Arbitration Committee. Hon. Members will possibly not all be…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 thank the shadow Minister for his question. I have not actually said that we will require members to be informed of their right to join a trade union annually—we are simply…07 Jan 2025HANSARDEmployment Rights Bill (Sixteenth sitting)I will respond briefly to some of the points that have been made. I was asked why we need to put equality representatives on statutory footing. I think the hon. Member for Torbay…07 Jan 2025HANSARDEmployment Rights Bill (Sixteenth sitting)I understand the hon. Gentleman’s point but I refer him to the impact assessment, which sets out the cost of these individual measures and their cumulative impact. For facility…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 (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 2025