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HANSARDEmployment Rights Bill (Tenth sitting)I beg to move amendment 163, in clause 18, page 31, line 24, at end insert— “(4) In section 14K, in subsection (1), after paragraph (cb) insert— ‘(cc) works or worked as a…10 Dec 2024HANSARDEmployment Rights Bill (Ninth sitting)I appreciate the shadow Minister’s giving way. I will make an effort not to intervene every time he stands up. There is a very serious point here that anyone who has ever been in…10 Dec 2024HANSARDEmployment Rights Bill (Ninth sitting)Will the shadow Minister give way?10 Dec 2024HANSARDEmployment Rights Bill (Ninth sitting)Given the Liberal Democrat new clauses we discussed earlier, it is clear that we welcome any flexibility that encourages paternity leave and allows parents to share the leave in…10 Dec 2024HANSARDEmployment Rights Bill (Ninth sitting)After that incredibly moving speech by the hon. Member for Mid Buckinghamshire, I cannot help but share the absolute concerns of friends of mine who have also lost children in…10 Dec 2024HANSARDFireworks: Sale and UseI thank the hon. Member for Keighley and Ilkley (Robbie Moore) for introducing this important debate. I am grateful to the Petitions Committee for ensuring that the sale and use…09 Dec 2024HANSARDEmployment Rights Bill (Sixth sitting)As I am sure the Minister knows, the Liberal Democrats as a group are convinced that a lot of elements of this Bill go a long way towards strengthening workers’ rights. There is…03 Dec 2024HANSARDEmployment Rights Bill (Sixth sitting)The Minister made an extremely good point about the security that is required. It should not be an arbitrary 48 hours that is given. Specifying the time for each sector,…03 Dec 2024HANSARDEmployment Rights Bill (Sixth sitting)Despite some of my concerns, I would like to lend my support to the clause, because the guarantees for workers are important. I caveat that by saying that the guidance for SMEs…03 Dec 2024HANSARDEmployment Rights Bill (Sixth sitting)I will not for a second, but will afterwards, if that is okay. I have spent the last 20 years deciphering the Town and Country Planning Act 1990, and recently had the pleasure of…03 Dec 2024HANSARDEmployment Rights Bill (Fifth sitting)I draw the Committee’s attention to my declaration of interests. I have run a small business for the last 20 years. It would probably even be considered a microbusiness, because a…03 Dec 2024HANSARDEmployment Rights Bill (Fifth sitting)As I have stated, I am concerned for small businesses and have spoken to many across my constituency of Chippenham that are extremely concerned about the cumulative effects of…03 Dec 2024HANSARDEmployment Rights Bill (Fifth sitting)Like previous amendments, the amendment highlights a serious concern among quite a lot of local businesses to which I have spoken, especially SMEs, which is that a considerable…03 Dec 2024HANSARDEmployment Rights Bill (Sixth sitting)The hon. Member for High Peak quotes an equally incomprehensible piece of legislation. It occurs to me that some time ago, the banking industry was accused of a similar problem…03 Dec 2024HANSARDEmployment Rights Bill (Fourth sitting)Q I am glad to hear that you share my concerns for small and medium-sized enterprises. As you have probably all noticed—it is in my declaration of interests—I have run a small…28 Nov 2024HANSARDEmployment Rights Bill (Fourth sitting)Q Fair enough. My last point is one that was made earlier by one of our witnesses—it possibly also comes under the Department for Work and Pensions—about losing your universal…28 Nov 2024HANSARDEmployment Rights Bill (Fourth sitting)Q I have to say that if you considered that to be two questions, then I have four. My second question—your third—is to do with the fact that we have had quite a lot of evidence…28 Nov 2024HANSARDEmployment Rights Bill (Fourth sitting)Q I have three short points to make. I am assuming that you are quite concerned that we have heard various sides talk about the fact that the Bill will not encourage employers to…28 Nov 2024HANSARDEmployment Rights Bill (Fourth sitting)Q Do you think that the measures in the Bill go anywhere in the way of supporting those with family or carer responsibilities? Dr Stephenson: Obviously, the provisions about…28 Nov 2024HANSARDEmployment Rights Bill (Fourth sitting)Q Quite a few witnesses have said of the improved employee rights that, in fact, the existing employee rights are often not exercised because the tribunals are slow and…28 Nov 2024