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HANSARDEmployment Rights Bill (Sixth sitting)I beg to move amendment 16, in clause 1, page 11, line 18, leave out “three” and insert “six”. This amendment would increase the time limit for bringing proceedings under the new…03 Dec 2024HANSARDEmployment Rights Bill (Sixth sitting)I beg to move amendment 12, in clause 1, page 8, leave out lines 8 and 9 and insert— “(6) For the purposes of subsection (3)(c) (and subsection (4)(b), which applies subsection…03 Dec 2024HANSARDEmployment Rights Bill (Sixth sitting)I am grateful for the shadow Minister’s questions. No doubt during the passage of the Bill we will come back on several occasions to that point about the number of amendments. I…03 Dec 2024HANSARDEmployment Rights Bill (Sixth sitting)Amendment 11 will introduce a duty on employers to inform workers when an exemption applies and the employer is exempt from their obligation to offer a worker a guaranteed hours…03 Dec 2024HANSARDEmployment Rights Bill (Sixth sitting)I beg to move amendment 11, in clause 1, page 8, line 7, at end insert— “(5A) Where, by virtue of subsection (2), a guaranteed hours offer made by an employer to a qualifying…03 Dec 2024HANSARDEmployment Rights Bill (Sixth sitting)It is a pleasure to see you in the Chair, Mr Stringer. I apologise in advance to the Committee because amendment 10 is rather technical, as several amendments are this afternoon.…03 Dec 2024HANSARDEmployment Rights Bill (Sixth sitting)I beg to move amendment 6, in clause 1, page 7, line 7, leave out “(or has most recently been working)”. This amendment is consequential on amendment 10.03 Dec 2024HANSARDEmployment Rights Bill (Fifth sitting)If we put 12 weeks on the face of the Bill, would the Opposition support it?03 Dec 2024HANSARDEmployment Rights Bill (Fifth sitting)The amendment tabled by the hon. Member for Mid Buckinghamshire seeks to amend clause 1 to specify in the Bill that the initial and subsequent reference periods for the right to…03 Dec 2024HANSARDEmployment Rights Bill (Fifth sitting)I am grateful to my hon. Friend for his intervention. Much employment law, particularly in relation to agency workers, is dealt with by regulations; that is appropriate because of…03 Dec 2024HANSARDEmployment Rights Bill (Fifth sitting)I am grateful for the hon. Member’s question. It is our intention to include agency workers, which is why we have been consulting. The consultation finished yesterday on how best…03 Dec 2024HANSARDEmployment Rights Bill (Fifth sitting)I am grateful to the shadow Minister for tabling these amendments. He will again be unsurprised to learn that we will not be accepting them. The Bill fulfils our pledge to end…03 Dec 2024HANSARDEmployment Rights Bill (Fifth sitting)indicated assent.03 Dec 2024HANSARDEmployment Rights Bill (Fifth sitting)I am grateful to the shadow Minister for intervening, but there is not a total lack of clarity. We have been clear all along, including when we were in opposition, that the…03 Dec 2024HANSARDEmployment Rights Bill (Fifth sitting)The shadow Minister will not be surprised to hear that we will resist the amendment. First, it is important to note that the Bill does not ban the use of fixed-term contracts, or…03 Dec 2024HANSARDEmployment Rights Bill (Fifth sitting)The hon. Gentleman asked so many questions that I did not have a chance to make a note of them. A lot of the issues he raised will be dealt with by amendments that we will debate…03 Dec 2024HANSARDEmployment Rights Bill (Fifth sitting)The shadow Minister tempts me to pre-empt what we will put in the consultation. I have had a number of conversations with my hon. Friend the Member for Worsley and Eccles over…03 Dec 2024HANSARDEmployment Rights Bill (Fifth sitting)I am grateful to the shadow Minister for clarifying that this is a probing amendment, and possibly also that it is a ridiculous amendment, although I am not sure that that is the…03 Dec 2024HANSARDEmployment Rights Bill (Fifth sitting)I think I understand the point my hon. Friend is making: sometimes, an individual who is aggrieved about their treatment will find a legal claim to pursue the employer even if it…03 Dec 2024HANSARDEmployment Rights Bill (Fifth sitting)I understand the point that the hon. Member is making. I think it would not need a new clause but a new Bill, because there is a whole range of very complicated issues about…03 Dec 2024