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Employment Bill [Lords]

Debate on bills on Monday, 14 July 2008, in the House of Commons, led by Pat McFadden. The answering member was Jonathan Djanogly.
Employment Bill (HL). Second reading debate. Agreed to on question. Programme motion for proceedings in Committee, Report, Third reading and other proceedings. Agreed to on division (301 votes to 122). Ways and means resolution agreed to on question.

About these Parliamentary proceedings

Reference

479 c39-108, (corrigendum) 230;479 c39-108 

Session

2007-08

Department

Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform

Legislative stage

Second reading

Procedure

Programme motions
Ways and means resolutions

Chamber / Committee

House of Commons chamber

Related items

Employment Bill (HL). Brought from the Lords. Explanatory Notes Bill 117-EN also published.
Tuesday, 3 June 2008
Bills
House of Commons
Deposited Paper DEP 07/813
Wednesday, 21 March 2007
Deposited papers
House of Commons
Employment Act 2002
Monday, 8 July 2002
Public acts
Employment Relations Act 2004
Thursday, 16 September 2004
Public acts

Proceeding contributions

Oliver Heald | 479 c98 (Link to this contribution) On a point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker. Is it in order for the hon. Member for Newcastle-under-Lyme...
Malcolm Wicks | 479 c99 (Link to this contribution) I am happy to take interventions. One comment made by my hon. Friend the Member for Hayes and Harlin...

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John McDonnell | 479 c99 (Link to this contribution) That matter was covered in an Adjournment debate in Westminster Hall some weeks ago, when we welcome...
Malcolm Wicks | 479 c99 (Link to this contribution) I hope that my hon. Friend will accept that there has been a great deal of extra publicity and that ...
Geoffrey Clifton-Brown | 479 c99 (Link to this contribution) The Minister for Employment Relations and Postal Affairs told the House that 1,649 employers were no...
Malcolm Wicks | 479 c99-100 (Link to this contribution) The emphasis has been on compliance. Now there will be an automatic penalty, and I have mentioned th...
Sarah Teather | 479 c101 (Link to this contribution) I raised all those points in my speech and acknowledged that the Government had made some changes in...
Malcolm Wicks | 479 c101 (Link to this contribution) My colleague looks forward to meeting the citizens advice bureaux, as well as our colleagues in the ...
David Drew | 479 c101 (Link to this contribution) Does my hon. Friend accept that one of the problems with the process is not only the non-payment but...
Malcolm Wicks | 479 c102-3 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. Friend the Secretary of State has made his views clear and we have had direct contact ...
Russell Brown | 479 c102 (Link to this contribution) In view of the fact that the Minister is saying that the Department is considering the subject, even...
Malcolm Wicks | 479 c101-2 (Link to this contribution) I understand that. Indeed, in my own constituency I have had experience of one or two such situation...
Charles Walker | 479 c103 (Link to this contribution) I agree that people have the right to be members of the BNP; but likewise, unions must have the righ...
Malcolm Wicks | 479 c103 (Link to this contribution) Absolutely right; I agree with the hon. Gentleman. We are concerned that removing reference to forme...
Paul Farrelly | 479 c103 (Link to this contribution) I recognise that the territory is difficult, but does my hon. Friend recognise that the TUC still ha...
Malcolm Wicks | 479 c103 (Link to this contribution) We know of the TUC's concerns and no doubt those matters will be discussed in Committee. Clause 18 ...
Baroness Burt of Solihull | 479 c103 (Link to this contribution) I understand the point that the Minister is making about trade unions and people who have been past ...
Malcolm Wicks | 479 c104 (Link to this contribution) I understand the point, but there will be safeguards to ensure that that eventuality does not arise,...
Malcolm Wicks | 479 c104 (Link to this contribution) No, I do not think so. I might not have been able to cover all the detailed points that hon. Member...
Geoffrey Clifton-Brown | 479 c93 (Link to this contribution) With great respect—and I do have great respect for the hon. Member for North-West Leicestershire (Da...
David Leslie Taylor | 479 c93 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is right to talk about the aggregate burden of regulation. He referred earlier, a...
Geoffrey Clifton-Brown | 479 c93 (Link to this contribution) I certainly consider it to be the mark to a civilised society. What I do not know, and what the Mini...
Pat McFadden | 479 c93 (Link to this contribution) Does the hon. Gentleman accept that the BCC figure to which he referred includes measures such as in...
Geoffrey Clifton-Brown | 479 c93-4 (Link to this contribution) I want to make progress, because I have been speaking for a while and I want the Minister to have a ...
Charles Walker | 479 c94 (Link to this contribution) I thank my hon. Friend for his kind words. The BNP is no longer a problem in Broxbourne, in the sen...
Geoffrey Clifton-Brown | 479 c94 (Link to this contribution) Will my hon. Friend allow me just one second? I think what I say will help him. Those policies are a...
John McDonnell | 479 c95 (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Gentleman give way?
Geoffrey Clifton-Brown | 479 c95 (Link to this contribution) I entirely agree. I think that the problem with the BNP, or at least some of its members, is the fac...
Geoffrey Clifton-Brown | 479 c95 (Link to this contribution) No. I will give way to the hon. Member for Hayes and Harlington, but I will not give way after that....
Geoffrey Clifton-Brown | 479 c95 (Link to this contribution) I will in a second, for the last time. Let me say gently to the Minister—I think he will face quite...
Geoffrey Clifton-Brown | 479 c95 (Link to this contribution) No, because I am up against my deadline. I have taken more than my allotted time—although there is t...
Michael Jabez Foster | 479 c95 (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Gentleman give way once more?
Geoffrey Clifton-Brown | 479 c95 (Link to this contribution) If the hon. Gentleman is trying to deny that he is one of the old socialist brothers, I think that h...
Michael Jabez Foster | 479 c96 (Link to this contribution) That is very generous. The hon. Gentleman shares the justified prejudice of us all against the BNP....
Malcolm Wicks | 479 c97 (Link to this contribution) I will do so later, as there is plenty of time. The Conservative party's position on the national m...
Malcolm Wicks | 479 c96-7 (Link to this contribution) I agree with the hon. Member for Cotswold (Mr. Clifton-Brown) in one respect: the Government will no...
Geoffrey Clifton-Brown | 479 c96 (Link to this contribution) As I said, if the Government legislate not to deal with individuals' or even individual parties' pre...
Malcolm Wicks | 479 c97 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is wrong on this, as he is on so many matters now, sadly. There has been a significan...
John McDonnell | 479 c97 (Link to this contribution) To re-establish my credentials as a socialist, may I ask why, after 11 years of this Government, tra...
Malcolm Wicks | 479 c97 (Link to this contribution) Let me make a little progress. We are determined now to go after the minority of employers who do t...
Geoffrey Clifton-Brown | 479 c97 (Link to this contribution) Will the Minister give way on the comments he has just made?
Paul Farrelly | 479 c98 (Link to this contribution) Perhaps I can strike a different tone from that of my colleague, the hon. Member for Hayes and Harli...
Malcolm Wicks | 479 c98 (Link to this contribution) I will give way to my hon. Friend in the interests of anything.
Paul Farrelly | 479 c98 (Link to this contribution) Will the Minister give way in the interests of balance?
Charles Walker | 479 c98 (Link to this contribution) Will the Minister not accept that the ability to change one's mind is the sign of a mature politicia...
Malcolm Wicks | 479 c98 (Link to this contribution) Only in the sense that we now have a far better clause 4, because we believe in improvement and mode...
Geoffrey Clifton-Brown | 479 c97 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the Minister for giving way, because he is teasing us all the way along the line. H...
Malcolm Wicks | 479 c97 (Link to this contribution) Yes; on the battles the hon. Gentleman's party has lost, of course I will give way.
Malcolm Wicks | 479 c98 (Link to this contribution) I did notice that, but clearly the parties are in a mood to address the evidence and to change, if t...
John McDonnell | 479 c90 (Link to this contribution) In the briefing that my hon. Friend has quoted from, the TUC suggests that Mr. Lee, the BNP member w...
David Anderson | 479 c90 (Link to this contribution) I could not agree more. The hon. Member for Broxbourne (Mr. Walker) is not in his place, but he put ...
Nadine Dorries | 479 c88 (Link to this contribution) Actually, I think that I will finish now because I am reaching the end of my comments. As I explain...
David Anderson | 479 c88-90 (Link to this contribution) I want to focus on three issues in the Bill: the minimum wage, the tribunal system and the ASLEF rul...
Nadine Dorries | 479 c87-8 (Link to this contribution) Not at all. As I said, I accept that we need a national minimum wage. My daughter works in the hospi...
Nadine Dorries | 479 c87 (Link to this contribution) I am not making a coded appeal at all. If I was making such an appeal, I assure the hon. Gentleman t...
David Leslie Taylor | 479 c87 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Lady has decoded her earlier remarks and we are very pleased about that. Is she suggesting ...
David Leslie Taylor | 479 c87 (Link to this contribution) In a former life I was a freelance accountant for many small businesses. I have a very high regard f...
Geoffrey Clifton-Brown | 479 c93 (Link to this contribution) I agree with my hon. Friend that all these costs on employers must be taken into account. If we cont...
Geoffrey Clifton-Brown | 479 c92 (Link to this contribution) We are still discussing the issue. I understand that there are three different rates according to di...
Michael Jabez Foster | 479 c92 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is now recanting the decision originally to vote against the minimum wage and he ...
Geoffrey Clifton-Brown | 479 c92 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for raising that issue, which relates to clause 18 on the trade ...
Oliver Heald | 479 c93 (Link to this contribution) Does my hon. Friend agree that in reflecting on rates of pay for the under-18s, it is important to t...
Speaker | 479 c91 (Link to this contribution) I really think that there is no need to extend the debate to the subject just raised by the hon. Mem...
Geoffrey Clifton-Brown | 479 c91-2 (Link to this contribution) Thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker. It is just as well that I did not give way to the hon. Member for H...
John McDonnell | 479 c92 (Link to this contribution) I am not making a party political point as I want to reach consensus, but what is the official Oppos...
Geoffrey Clifton-Brown | 479 c90 (Link to this contribution) I am delighted to follow the hon. Member for Blaydon (Mr. Anderson). His final remark was that we mi...
Brian H Donohoe | 479 c86 (Link to this contribution) I wonder whether the hon. Lady realises that there were 18 years of Tory rule between all the post-w...
Nadine Dorries | 479 c84-6 (Link to this contribution) As we are all declaring our interests in trade unions, I suppose I should declare my own. As a train...
David Anderson | 479 c86 (Link to this contribution) What in the Bill would the hon. Lady take away? What part of the regulations does she not agree with...
Nadine Dorries | 479 c86 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman makes an interesting point, as always. However, we know, as we now enter a recess...
Russell Brown | 479 c83-4 (Link to this contribution) Yes, fit and healthy, and if they want to make that contribution, they should be allowed to do so. ...
Russell Brown | 479 c84 (Link to this contribution) I can only agree with the hon. Gentleman; it very much does. He probably could not give a finer exam...
David Leslie Taylor | 479 c83 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend cites organisations in the private sector, but does he acknowledge, and regret the fa...
Russell Brown | 479 c83 (Link to this contribution) I thank my hon. Friend for his intervention, and there is more than one question within it. He outli...
Russell Brown | 479 c82-3 (Link to this contribution) I apologise, Madam Deputy Speaker—I should know better. There are still clear dividing lines in res...
Speaker | 479 c82 (Link to this contribution) Order. Could we now get on to the Bill that is currently before us? We have all appreciated the hist...
Russell Brown | 479 c82 (Link to this contribution) Yes, Labour Members were there through the night, because that was the important time when progress ...
Angus Brendan MacNeil | 479 c82 (Link to this contribution) As the hon. Gentleman's memory is so great, were all the Labour Members present all night? I have no...
Russell Brown | 479 c81 (Link to this contribution) If anyone knows what lies behind all that, my hon. Friend does; he is exactly right in what he says....
Jeremy Corbyn | 479 c81 (Link to this contribution) I support what my hon. Friend says. Speaking as a former union organiser in London, we always strong...
Russell Brown | 479 c81 (Link to this contribution) I say to my hon. Friend, who, like me, comes from a trade union background, that I wholeheartedly su...
Baroness Burt of Solihull | 479 c81 (Link to this contribution) Is the hon. Gentleman suggesting that £5.20 an hour is a living wage for somebody who lives in Londo...
John McDonnell | 479 c81 (Link to this contribution) May I place it on the record that if it was inappropriate to have regional variations on the minimum...
Baroness Clark of Kilwinning | 479 c72 (Link to this contribution) Indeed. People have become increasingly aware of the fact that, unless they leave cash, the money mi...
Baroness Clark of Kilwinning | 479 c72 (Link to this contribution) I hope that I made it clear in my initial comments that the more simple a law is, the more likely it...
Rob Marris | 479 c72 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend will have considerable experience of this matter as a former trade union solicitor. W...
Baroness Clark of Kilwinning | 479 c76 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman will be aware that a great deal of work has been done by Labour Members, and by t...
Charles Walker | 479 c77 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Lady makes a very interesting point, and that was a useful intervention. I will come on to ...
Ian McCartney | 479 c77 (Link to this contribution) Before the hon. Gentleman leaves the subject completely and forgets to answer the question asked by ...
Richard Shepherd | 479 c72-6 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Member for North Ayrshire and Arran (Ms Clark) made mention of 1997 and the body of law tha...
Charles Walker | 479 c76 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to be called to speak on this interesting Bill. Before I came to the House, until 2001...
Charles Walker | 479 c76 (Link to this contribution) I apologise. I had some very testing meetings with the right hon. Gentleman, and to be fair some of ...
Sion Simon | 479 c78 (Link to this contribution) Does the hon. Gentleman agree that people should not make the mistake of thinking that by leaving a ...
Charles Walker | 479 c77-8 (Link to this contribution) I probably will not give the hon. Lady the answer that she is looking for, but I fully bought into h...
Baroness Clark of Kilwinning | 479 c77 (Link to this contribution) The question that the hon. Gentleman is being asked is whether he supports the discrimination that t...
Charles Walker | 479 c77 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Gentleman makes an interesting point about the agency workers directive. That directi...
Ian McCartney | 479 c81 (Link to this contribution) It might be interesting to the citizens of Liverpool that the Liberal Democrats, who control the cou...
Russell Brown | 479 c81 (Link to this contribution) I wholeheartedly agree with my right hon. Friend.
Baroness Burt of Solihull | 479 c80 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman says that he wishes to see fairness right across the country; I am sure that ever...
Russell Brown | 479 c80-1 (Link to this contribution) Absolutely; I would not disagree in the slightest. However, the hon. Lady's party wanted to introduc...
Charles Walker | 479 c78-9 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman makes a good point. I am sorry if I misled the House and anybody watching by sugg...
Russell Brown | 479 c79-80 (Link to this contribution) It is always good to follow a brother. I should declare that I am a member of the Transport and Gene...
Sarah Teather | 479 c64 (Link to this contribution) I just mentioned one thing—an employment commission—and I am about to move on to the next one, if th...
Oliver Heald | 479 c65-7 (Link to this contribution) I first wish to make a general point that is relatively important in the context of clause 4. When I...
Baroness Clark of Kilwinning | 479 c67 (Link to this contribution) I agree with the points made by the hon. Member for North-East Hertfordshire (Mr. Heald) about the r...
John McDonnell | 479 c67 (Link to this contribution) Before my hon. Friend moves off the issue of lay members, can we all place on the record the work th...
Baroness Clark of Kilwinning | 479 c67-9 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to my hon. Friend for that intervention. As I was saying, the National Minimum Wage A...
Rob Marris | 479 c69 (Link to this contribution) I make this intervention as someone whose constituency Labour party receives moneys from the trade u...
Baroness Clark of Kilwinning | 479 c69 (Link to this contribution) I agree. My central point is that trade unions should be able to regulate their own rule books. Memb...
David Anderson | 479 c69 (Link to this contribution) I agree entirely with my hon. Friend. A person could start an apprenticeship at 16 and become a full...
Baroness Clark of Kilwinning | 479 c70 (Link to this contribution) I agree with my hon. Friend. There is a strong case that there should be no discrimination on the ba...
Rob Marris | 479 c70 (Link to this contribution) I have every sympathy with my hon. Friend's proposition, but it is incredibly difficult to legislate...
John McDonnell | 479 c70 (Link to this contribution) Another irony is that even though such ships are not UK flagged, a number of them still receive the ...
Baroness Clark of Kilwinning | 479 c70 (Link to this contribution) I do not accept what my hon. Friend says. Such situations are clearly difficult to regulate, but the...
Baroness Clark of Kilwinning | 479 c70-1 (Link to this contribution) I appreciate the point made by the hon. Gentleman. As we have discussed on previous occasions, it is...
Geoffrey Clifton-Brown | 479 c71 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Lady will know from the constituency that she represents that the UK used to have one of th...
Baroness Clark of Kilwinning | 479 c70 (Link to this contribution) Indeed. My hon. Friend highlights the fact that state subsidies are, in effect, underwriting exploit...
Angus Brendan MacNeil | 479 c70 (Link to this contribution) As a resident of the Western Isles, where the Caledonian MacBrayne ferries operate, I can tell the H...
Baroness Clark of Kilwinning | 479 c71 (Link to this contribution) Yes, indeed. My hon. Friend highlights yet another loophole, and I do not believe that that was the ...
Angus Brendan MacNeil | 479 c72 (Link to this contribution) I should like to emphasise that one of the reasons many people give tips is that they are aware of e...
Baroness Clark of Kilwinning | 479 c71 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman will be aware that that is why the tonnage tax was introduced. I am sure that the...
Rob Marris | 479 c71 (Link to this contribution) I sense that my hon. Friend might be moving on. Does she see anything in the Bill that relates to th...
Jonathan Djanogly | 479 c49 (Link to this contribution) I will not answer that question, which is a thesis point, in any depth, mainly because I never said ...
Emily Thornberry | 479 c49 (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Gentleman assist us on one point? He seems to be saying that, on the one hand, flexibi...
Jonathan Djanogly | 479 c48 (Link to this contribution) For the past decade, businesses of all sizes have had to cope with the steady drip, drip of employme...
Pat McFadden | 479 c47-8 (Link to this contribution) The ECHR discussed such rights in the ruling. Of course, there are rights to expression and freedoms...
Jonathan Djanogly | 479 c49 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman makes a fair point. It is the second time that such a thing has happened; only a ...
Angus Brendan MacNeil | 479 c49 (Link to this contribution) I hear what the hon. Gentleman says about participation. Is it not indicative of what he says that o...
Baroness Burt of Solihull | 479 c46 (Link to this contribution) I wonder whether the Minister can explain to the House the reasoning for excluding accommodation cos...
Jim Sheridan | 479 c47 (Link to this contribution) Will my hon. Friend perhaps expand on the ECHR ruling on European law? Given that most, if not all, ...
Pat McFadden | 479 c46-7 (Link to this contribution) Accommodation can be directly provided, as part of a voluntary activity, but we were not keen to hav...
Sion Simon | 479 c64 (Link to this contribution) I might have missed it, so could the hon. Lady say a bit about what her Front-Bench team recommend t...
Sarah Teather | 479 c62-4 (Link to this contribution) I agree with my hon. Friend. Employers who pay the minimum wage, however reluctantly, feel very aggr...
Baroness Burt of Solihull | 479 c62 (Link to this contribution) Does my hon. Friend agree that certainty of detection and of subsequent prosecution would be two of ...
Sarah Teather | 479 c60-2 (Link to this contribution) We are discussing employment at extremely short notice. I do not wish to labour the point; others ha...
John McDonnell | 479 c54-60 (Link to this contribution) This is the first time that I have been accused of calling the shots on Government legislation. [Int...
Jonathan Djanogly | 479 c52-4 (Link to this contribution) I can only tell the hon. Gentleman that the shadow Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and R...
Jim Sheridan | 479 c52 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman clearly has a jaundiced view of trade unions. Perhaps I could point out that his ...
Jonathan Djanogly | 479 c50-2 (Link to this contribution) I thank my hon. Friend for his important contribution. The issue goes even further. If we look throu...
Oliver Heald | 479 c50 (Link to this contribution) Is not my hon. Friend being characteristically generous in his comments about the Government? Did no...
Jonathan Djanogly | 479 c49-50 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Lady talks as though there are absolutes of flexibility. There are no absolutes. The Conser...
Charles Walker | 479 c43 (Link to this contribution) In the Minister's experience, which sectors of our economy are most prone to breaking the law relati...
Pat McFadden | 479 c42-3 (Link to this contribution) I agree about the value of lay members to the tribunal process, but the hon. Gentleman will be aware...
Charles Walker | 479 c43 (Link to this contribution) One thing that concerns many people in the House, particularly in relation to the hospitality indust...
Pat McFadden | 479 c43 (Link to this contribution) It is the traditionally lowest paid sectors. For example, this year we have targeted minimum wage en...
Pat McFadden | 479 c44 (Link to this contribution) We have had representations on the subject, including from my hon. Friend the Member for Paisley and...
Oliver Heald | 479 c41 (Link to this contribution) The draft code does not seem to make clear the final date by which people must return their consulta...
Pat McFadden | 479 c41 (Link to this contribution) If the hon. Gentleman will allow me, I may come back to him on the precise date. Michael Gibbons al...
Oliver Heald | 479 c42 (Link to this contribution) The Minister will know that tripartite decision making in the tribunals is strongly supported. The a...
Pat McFadden | 479 c41-2 (Link to this contribution) One such example might be where an employee had been found to have a case, but they had not complied...
Pat McFadden | 479 c45-6 (Link to this contribution) The payment of interest has been raised with us, but it would take us into complicated areas with re...
Sarah Teather | 479 c45 (Link to this contribution) Has the Minister considered representations made by the unions and by my hon. Friend the Member for ...
Emily Thornberry | 479 c45 (Link to this contribution) Will my hon. Friend help us by giving some examples of non-compliance, so that people have a clearer...
Pat McFadden | 479 c44 (Link to this contribution) Most employers are happy to pay when the problem is pointed out. I can give the hon. Gentleman the f...
Geoffrey Clifton-Brown | 479 c44 (Link to this contribution) Will the Minister give the House an idea of the number of serious cases that the powers in the Bill ...
Pat McFadden | 479 c45 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend raises an important point. If anyone wants to know about the attitude of the SNP to t...
Jim Sheridan | 479 c45 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend will be aware that there is a national minimum wage for agricultural workers in Scotl...
Pat McFadden | 479 c44 (Link to this contribution) According to the figures from last year, 59 enforcement notices were issued and 25 penalty notices. ...
Baroness Burt of Solihull | 479 c44 (Link to this contribution) Will the Minister say how many non-compliant employers have been prosecuted as a result of not payin...
Oliver Heald | 479 c40 (Link to this contribution) Does the hon. Gentleman agree with what Michael Gibbons said about these regulations: that they are ...
Pat McFadden | 479 c39-40 (Link to this contribution) The House discusses many important issues, and I disagree with the hon. Lady if she feels that it is...
Pat McFadden | 479 c40-1 (Link to this contribution) The Gibbons report said these reforms had been well intentioned but had had unintended consequences....
Pat McFadden | 479 c39 (Link to this contribution) I beg to move, That the Bill be now read a Second time. I thought for a moment that the presence of...
Nadine Dorries | 479 c39 (Link to this contribution) I hope to be called to speak later as my interests are wide and varied, but for now I ask the Minist...
Speaker | 479 c98-9 (Link to this contribution) Order. That sedentary comment was not very helpful. The proceedings that take place do so in this Ch...
Geoffrey Clifton-Brown | 479 c96 (Link to this contribution) All right. I will give way for the last time.
Malcolm Wicks | 479 c97 (Link to this contribution) Not just yet, no, although obviously the hon. Gentleman's party has given way on the national minimu...
Nadine Dorries | 479 c87 (Link to this contribution) I shall probably answer the hon. Gentleman's question when I conclude. My point now is that I would ...
Jim Sheridan | 479 c49 (Link to this contribution) If, as the hon. Gentleman suggests, employment legislation can lead to high unemployment, why is it ...
Pat McFadden | 479 c45 (Link to this contribution) I have already given the House some figures on non-compliance. As I said, 1,649 employers were found...
John McDonnell | 479 c95 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman depicted a number of us as being left-wing or old Labour, when we were simply ref...
Charles Walker | 479 c84 (Link to this contribution) When my newspaper informed the BNP organiser in Broxbourne that I had received an implied death thre...
Russell Brown | 479 c81 (Link to this contribution) We have moved on from the £5.20 an hour that we had previously, and thankfully we have moved on from...
Charles Walker | 479 c41 (Link to this contribution) The Minister has said that the award can be varied upwards or downwards by 25 per cent. Will he expl...
Malcolm Wicks | 479 c98 (Link to this contribution) Sadly, I am even more mature at least in a chronological sense—I do not suggest in any other sense—t...

Notes

Daily part printing error: In column 106, delete ““Knight, rh Mr. Greg”” and insert ““Knight, Jim””.

Subjects

Codes of practice
ACAS
Advisory services
Cadets
Employment
Industrial relations
Finance
European Convention on Human Rights
Industrial disputes
Fines
Employment agencies
Entertainers
Dismissal
Journalism
Membership
Minimum wage
Political parties
Migrant workers
Standards
Tribunals
Young people
Small businesses
Trade unions
Shipping
Territorial waters
Voluntary work
British National Party
Employment Dispute Resolution Review
Maritime law

Legislation

Employment Bill (HL) 2007-08

Contains statistics

Yes

Link

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