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HANSARDEmployment Rights Bill (Seventh sitting)I beg to move amendment 37, in clause 3, page 22, line 11, after “must” insert “— (a) make a declaration to that effect, and. (b) ”. This amendment and amendment 38 require an…05 Dec 2024HANSARDEmployment Rights Bill (Seventh sitting)I beg to move amendment 30, in clause 3, page 18, leave out lines 7 to 19 and insert— “(b) in relation to the movement of a shift, or the movement and curtailment (at the same…05 Dec 2024HANSARDEmployment Rights Bill (Seventh sitting)Proposed new section 27BT of the 1996 Act makes provision for a payment to be made to the worker where an employment tribunal finds that the worker’s employer failed to make a…05 Dec 2024HANSARDEmployment Rights Bill (Seventh sitting)I am grateful for the shadow Minister’s support for the amendment. Amendment 43 agreed to. Amendments made: 44, in schedule 1, page 107, line 10, after “27BA(1)” insert “or…05 Dec 2024HANSARDEmployment Rights Bill (Seventh sitting)I beg to move amendment 43, in schedule 1, page 106, line 8, at end insert— “In section 27 (meaning of ‘wages’ for purposes of Part 2 of the Act), in subsection (1)— (a) after the…05 Dec 2024HANSARDEmployment Rights Bill (Sixth sitting)We have had a pretty wide-ranging debate. Generally, there has been support for the amendments. I welcome the Liberal Democrats’ support and hope they carry on in the same spirit…03 Dec 2024HANSARDEmployment Rights Bill (Sixth sitting)We have had a good debate on this amendment. It is fair to say that my reaction when I first saw the amendment was similar—that it is quite wordy. However, that is the way our…03 Dec 2024HANSARDEmployment Rights Bill (Sixth sitting)I will not detain the Committee too long, because it feels like we have had the clause stand part debate already. I will briefly go through the provisions of clause 2, which…03 Dec 2024HANSARDEmployment Rights Bill (Sixth sitting)The way the shadow Minister was intervened on made it feel like this was an Opposition amendment, but it is actually a Government amendment to deal with the issue of split shifts…03 Dec 2024HANSARDEmployment Rights Bill (Sixth sitting)I am afraid we are back into some of the more technical minor amendments, on which I will not detain the Committee too long. Amendment 24 will ensure that employers have to give…03 Dec 2024HANSARDEmployment Rights Bill (Sixth sitting)As the hon. Member will know, the total cost to businesses from the Bill, as set out in the impact assessment, is about 0.4% of total employer costs. We absolutely acknowledge…03 Dec 2024HANSARDEmployment Rights Bill (Sixth sitting)I beg to move amendment 24, in clause 2, page 13, line 42, leave out “from what time on which day” and insert “when the shift is to start and end”. This amendment requires notice…03 Dec 2024HANSARDEmployment Rights Bill (Sixth sitting)I thank my hon. Friend for her intervention. That is indeed the overall message from every provision in the Bill: that good employers are doing lots of these things already. Those…03 Dec 2024HANSARDEmployment Rights Bill (Sixth sitting)I am grateful for the shadow Minister’s amendment. If it is a probing amendment, he has asked a lot of reasonable questions. There are, of course, things that we will be hoping to…03 Dec 2024HANSARDEmployment Rights Bill (Sixth sitting)To pick up on the points made by my hon. Friend the Member for Birmingham Northfield, this is about who we are trying to help. This clause is primarily about low-income workers…03 Dec 2024HANSARDEmployment Rights Bill (Sixth sitting)A lot of the questions the hon. Member asked will be dealt with by the regulations and by the anti-detriment provisions of the Bill. If he would like to see specific provisions in…03 Dec 2024HANSARDEmployment Rights Bill (Sixth sitting)Here we are, three and a bit hours in, and we are on the stand part debate for clause 1. I hope we can make swifter progress, but I am sure Members will appreciate that we have…03 Dec 2024HANSARDEmployment Rights Bill (Sixth sitting)There are a whole range of Government performance indicators where trends were already going in the wrong direction before covid hit, and that is just another of them. We…03 Dec 2024HANSARDEmployment Rights Bill (Sixth sitting)He is shaking his head—that is good. I certainly do not envisage that to be the case, but we recognise there is a backlog in the employment tribunals. Like many public services,…03 Dec 2024HANSARDEmployment Rights Bill (Sixth sitting)This group of amendments is not quite as daunting as it sounds, because they all deal with the same point, which is the extension of time limits for making claims. New schedule 2…03 Dec 2024