Information between 20th January 2024 - 16th October 2026
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26 Feb 2025, 5:06 p.m. - House of Commons "an Employment Bill that will make it impossible for business to grow. " Andrew Griffith MP (Arundel and South Downs, Conservative) - View Video - View Transcript |
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26 Feb 2025, 5:08 p.m. - House of Commons "Employment Bill which he studied. My friend talked to us about how family businesses are people's hopes and dreams and ambitions. You'll " Andrew Griffith MP (Arundel and South Downs, Conservative) - View Video - View Transcript |
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27 Mar 2025, 3:29 p.m. - House of Lords "forward an Employment Bill and a tax on the trade unions only confirmed their suspicion. This bill can help " Baroness O'Grady of Upper Holloway (Labour) - View Video - View Transcript |
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27 Mar 2025, 11:33 a.m. - House of Commons "Changi since they rejected him? But tariffs are just one challenge facing the industry. Alongside the jobs tax and the employment Bill, the steel industry is being choked " Greg Smith MP (Mid Buckinghamshire, Conservative) - View Video - View Transcript |
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28 Mar 2025, 1:22 p.m. - House of Lords "to reflect current realities -- the employment bill is a step forward " Baroness Goudie (Labour) - View Video - View Transcript |
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28 Mar 2025, 2:26 p.m. - House of Lords "also say that we are now in the process of the employment Bill of creating a fair work agency. The " Lord Moraes (Labour) - View Video - View Transcript |
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31 Mar 2025, 3:17 p.m. - House of Lords " As I say, the Employment Bill we " Baroness Jones of Whitchurch, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Business and Trade) (Labour) - View Video - View Transcript |
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25 Mar 2025, 10:53 p.m. - House of Lords "an employment bill that we will be able to set our trade union rights " Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay (Conservative) - View Video - View Transcript |
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Friday 4th December 2026 Christopher Chope (Conservative - Christchurch) Private Members' Bills - Main Chamber Subject: Employment Bill: Second Reading Employment Bill 2026-27 View calendar - Add to calendar |
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Single Status of Worker
28 speeches (9,104 words) Wednesday 15th April 2026 - Westminster Hall Department for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade Mentions: 1: Ian Lavery (Lab - Blyth and Ashington) I also thank the Minister for her sterling work on the employment Bill. It was an excellent Bill. - Link to Speech |
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National Minimum Wage (Amendment) Regulations 2026
18 speeches (5,427 words) Tuesday 17th March 2026 - Lords Chamber Home Office Mentions: 1: Lord Goddard of Stockport (LD - Life peer) That should be encouraged; we should be able to do that.We had some arguments in the employment Bill - Link to Speech |
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Seasonal Work
267 speeches (37,460 words) Wednesday 10th December 2025 - Commons Chamber Department for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade Mentions: 1: Nigel Huddleston (Con - Droitwich and Evesham) anybody on the Government Benches can name any major business organisation that welcomes the employment Bill - Link to Speech 2: Ashley Fox (Con - Bridgwater) also the hated jobs tax, which we heard about earlier, and the consequences of the anti-jobs employment Bill - Link to Speech |
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Employment Rights Bill
78 speeches (9,398 words) Consideration of Lords messageConsideration of Lords Message Monday 8th December 2025 - Commons Chamber Department for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade Mentions: 1: Connor Rand (Lab - Altrincham and Sale West) I gently point out that Conservative Ministers promised more than 20 times to deliver an employment Bill - Link to Speech |
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Supporting High Streets
308 speeches (39,385 words) Tuesday 4th November 2025 - Commons Chamber Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government Mentions: 1: Iain Duncan Smith (Con - Chingford and Woodford Green) have national insurance charges so high that you cannot employ anyone, it is great to have an employment Bill - Link to Speech |
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Employment Rights Bill
178 speeches (28,836 words) Consideration of Lords amendments Monday 15th September 2025 - Commons Chamber Department for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade Mentions: 1: Andy McDonald (Lab - Middlesbrough and Thornaby East) sectoral bargaining and a single worker status, Members of this House will rightly call for a second employment Bill - Link to Speech |
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Employment Rights Bill
100 speeches (22,781 words) Report stage part two Wednesday 23rd July 2025 - Lords Chamber Department for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade Mentions: 1: Lord Goddard of Stockport (LD - Life peer) Apprenticeships are a little jewel in the employment Bill that have somehow been missed. - Link to Speech |
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Employment Rights Bill
78 speeches (16,102 words) Report stage part one Wednesday 23rd July 2025 - Lords Chamber Home Office Mentions: 1: Baroness O'Grady of Upper Holloway (Lab - Life peer) over time.In April 1980, the then Secretary of State for Employment, Jim Prior, introduced an Employment Bill - Link to Speech |
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Football Governance Bill [HL]
31 speeches (9,209 words) Consideration of Commons amendments and / or reasons Tuesday 15th July 2025 - Lords Chamber Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport Mentions: 1: Lord Goddard of Stockport (LD - Life peer) If the noble Baroness has nothing to do, she might want to help me out with the employment Bill tomorrow - Link to Speech |
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Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill
42 speeches (9,484 words) Committee stage: Part 1 Thursday 10th July 2025 - Lords Chamber Home Office Mentions: 1: None That feeds into the points mentioned by the noble Lord, Lord Alton, because the employment Bill is about - Link to Speech |
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Government Resilience Action Plan
25 speeches (5,551 words) Thursday 10th July 2025 - Lords Chamber Northern Ireland Office Mentions: 1: Lord Hogan-Howe (XB - Life peer) I have an amendment to the employment Bill—the noble Lord, Lord Katz, is sat next to the Minister—which - Link to Speech |
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Employment Rights Bill
99 speeches (25,997 words) Committee stage part one Wednesday 18th June 2025 - Lords Chamber Department for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade Mentions: 1: Lord Goddard of Stockport (LD - Life peer) I fully enjoy sitting until midnight doing the employment Bill on your behalf”—which I think, with my - Link to Speech |
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Employment Rights Bill
89 speeches (27,780 words) Committee stage: Part 1 Monday 16th June 2025 - Lords Chamber Home Office Mentions: 1: Earl of Clancarty (XB - Excepted Hereditary) hand in hand at any one time.I very much support the Bill as far as it goes, but a truly modern employment Bill - Link to Speech |
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Employment Rights Bill
74 speeches (24,534 words) Committee stage part one Tuesday 3rd June 2025 - Lords Chamber Home Office Mentions: 1: None The debate we just had was demoralising because I thought this Bill was an employment Bill. - Link to Speech |
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Oral Answers to Questions
154 speeches (11,055 words) Monday 12th May 2025 - Commons Chamber Department for Work and Pensions Mentions: 1: Liz Kendall (Lab - Leicester West) Our employment Bill is about ensuring that we improve the quality of jobs, give greater security to people - Link to Speech |
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Employment Rights Bill
163 speeches (35,993 words) Committee stage Thursday 8th May 2025 - Lords Chamber Home Office Mentions: 1: Lord Goddard of Stockport (LD - Life peer) I wonder why, with this employment Bill, we cannot get a little closer to dealing with the mechanics.The - Link to Speech |
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Employment Rights Bill
105 speeches (30,812 words) Committee stage part one Tuesday 29th April 2025 - Lords Chamber Department for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade Mentions: 1: Lord Hunt of Wirral (Con - Life peer) warning us that there are more amendments in the pipeline on fire and rehire, the fair work agency, employment Bill - Link to Speech 2: None 50-employee mark would of course factor in extra regulatory costs, such as complying with this employment Bill - Link to Speech |
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Employment Rights Bill: Productivity
26 speeches (1,500 words) Monday 31st March 2025 - Lords Chamber Department for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade Mentions: 1: Baroness Jones of Whitchurch (Lab - Life peer) The employment Bill that we have before us today is a very substantial piece of legislation. - Link to Speech |
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Employment Rights Bill
119 speeches (47,030 words) 2nd reading Thursday 27th March 2025 - Lords Chamber Department for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade Mentions: 1: Baroness O'Grady of Upper Holloway (Lab - Life peer) The Conservative Government’s broken promise to bring forward an employment Bill and its attacks on trade - Link to Speech |
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House of Lords (Hereditary Peers) Bill
72 speeches (17,658 words) Committee stage part two Tuesday 25th March 2025 - Lords Chamber Leader of the House Mentions: 1: Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay (Con - Life peer) If not, I see there is an employment Bill coming down the line and we will be able to assert our trade - Link to Speech |
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Employment Rights Bill
222 speeches (43,482 words) Report stage (day 2) Wednesday 12th March 2025 - Commons Chamber Department for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade Mentions: 1: Daisy Cooper (LD - St Albans) Government are seeking to introduce.Small businesses are telling me that, taking the measures of the employment Bill - Link to Speech 2: Laurence Turner (Lab - Birmingham Northfield) Friend will remember that in 2017, when the Conservatives announced the employment Bill that was never - Link to Speech |
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“Chapter 4A
177 speeches (47,644 words) Tuesday 11th March 2025 - Commons Chamber Department for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade Mentions: 1: Laurence Turner (Lab - Birmingham Northfield) As with the long-awaited employment Bill that never materialised, is it the case that this Government - Link to Speech 2: Andy McDonald (Lab - Middlesbrough and Thornaby East) particularly in response to the P&O disaster, that the Conservatives were going to introduce an employment Bill - Link to Speech |
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Family Businesses
215 speeches (31,779 words) Wednesday 26th February 2025 - Commons Chamber HM Treasury Mentions: 1: Andrew Griffith (Con - Arundel and South Downs) It gave its union paymasters a blank cheque to craft an employment Bill that will make it impossible - Link to Speech |
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Oral Answers to Questions
144 speeches (10,315 words) Wednesday 5th February 2025 - Commons Chamber Cabinet Office Mentions: 1: Kemi Badenoch (Con - North West Essex) Last week, I asked about the employment Bill; he did not know what was going on. - Link to Speech |
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Oral Answers to Questions
131 speeches (9,468 words) Wednesday 29th January 2025 - Commons Chamber Wales Office Mentions: 1: Kemi Badenoch (Con - North West Essex) Let us look at the employment Bill. - Link to Speech 2: Kemi Badenoch (Con - North West Essex) The Prime Minister does not want to talk about the employment Bill because he does not know about it. - Link to Speech 3: Kemi Badenoch (Con - North West Essex) The Federation of Small Businesses says 92% of small employers are concerned about the employment Bill - Link to Speech 4: Kemi Badenoch (Con - North West Essex) They are hypocrites.Let us talk about the employment Bill. - Link to Speech |
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National Insurance Contributions (Secondary Class 1 Contributions) Bill
117 speeches (23,745 words) Committee stage Wednesday 29th January 2025 - Grand Committee Cabinet Office Mentions: 1: Lord Leigh of Hurley (Con - Life peer) are going to take steps to shave that back, and that those steps will include lowering their employment bill - Link to Speech |
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Fiscal Policy: Defence Spending
61 speeches (5,543 words) Monday 27th January 2025 - Commons Chamber Ministry of Defence Mentions: 1: Andrew Snowden (Con - Fylde) Chancellor’s Budget squeezing their payroll costs, as well as increasing regulation through the employment Bill - Link to Speech |
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Employment Rights Bill (Seventeenth sitting)
78 speeches (13,014 words) Committee stage: 17th Sitting Thursday 9th January 2025 - Public Bill Committees Department for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade Mentions: 1: Laurence Turner (Lab - Birmingham Northfield) We were told over the last two Parliaments that an employment Bill was coming. - Link to Speech |
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Winter Preparedness
63 speeches (8,461 words) Wednesday 18th December 2024 - Commons Chamber Department of Health and Social Care Mentions: 1: Karin Smyth (Lab - Bristol South) As I said in my statement, we have begun plans to stabilise the workforce and the employment Bill is - Link to Speech |
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Stellantis Luton
13 speeches (4,955 words) Thursday 28th November 2024 - Lords Chamber Department for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade Mentions: 1: Earl of Effingham (Con - Excepted Hereditary) We hear that, on parts of the Government’s employment Bill, businesses were not even consulted. - Link to Speech 2: Baroness Jones of Whitchurch (Lab - Life peer) leisure properties from 2026-27—so we are addressing business rates.The noble Earl mentioned the employment Bill - Link to Speech |
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Employment Rights Bill (Second sitting)
117 speeches (30,790 words) Committee stage: 2nd sitting Tuesday 26th November 2024 - Public Bill Committees Department for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade Mentions: 1: Justin Madders (Lab - Ellesmere Port and Bromborough) Neil Carberry: I think it is reasonably well noted that we were disappointed that an employment Bill - Link to Speech 2: Nick Timothy (Con - West Suffolk) The then Government promised 20 times or more in Parliament that they would bring forward an employment Bill - Link to Speech |
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Oral Answers to Questions
144 speeches (9,518 words) Wednesday 20th November 2024 - Commons Chamber Department for Science, Innovation & Technology Mentions: 1: Paula Barker (Lab - Liverpool Wavertree) In 2019, the Conservative party promised to deliver an employment Bill that would protect and enhance - Link to Speech |
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Trade Union and Labour Relations (Consolidation) Act 1992 (Amendment of Schedule A2) Order 2024
6 speeches (1,086 words) Monday 18th November 2024 - Grand Committee Department for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade Mentions: 1: Baroness Jones of Whitchurch (Lab - Life peer) said, the Government are committed to ending unscrupulous fire-and-rehire practices through the employment Bill - Link to Speech |
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Oral Answers to Questions
138 speeches (8,860 words) Wednesday 23rd October 2024 - Commons Chamber Northern Ireland Office Mentions: 1: Angela Rayner (Lab - Ashton-under-Lyne) What I am incredibly proud of is that this week, this Government brought in a new employment Bill that - Link to Speech |
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Employment Rights Bill
315 speeches (51,502 words) 2nd reading Monday 21st October 2024 - Commons Chamber Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government Mentions: 1: Angela Rayner (Lab - Ashton-under-Lyne) after employment Bill and then never delivered them, that the people of this country deserve secure - Link to Speech 2: Angela Rayner (Lab - Ashton-under-Lyne) The previous Government promised an employment Bill to protect workers and they did not deliver. - Link to Speech 3: Richard Quigley (Lab - Isle of Wight West) Do Opposition Members agree that the main reason they are against this groundbreaking employment Bill - Link to Speech 4: Ruth Cadbury (Lab - Brentford and Isleworth) I support this landmark employment Bill, the biggest expansion of workers’ rights for a generation. - Link to Speech 5: Jayne Kirkham (LAB - Truro and Falmouth) This employment Bill is a huge step forward, and I am proud of it. - Link to Speech |
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Renters’ Rights Bill
233 speeches (45,941 words) 2nd reading Wednesday 9th October 2024 - Commons Chamber Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government Mentions: 1: Angela Rayner (Lab - Ashton-under-Lyne) I am also proud to plug the employment Bill that will be coming forward this week. - Link to Speech 2: Torsten Bell (Lab - Swansea West) fatalism, because we know that progress can be delivered; the minimum wage has proved it, and the employment Bill - Link to Speech |
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King’s Speech (4th Day)
161 speeches (62,658 words) Monday 22nd July 2024 - Lords Chamber Department for Science, Innovation & Technology Mentions: 1: Lord Monks (Lab - Life peer) Levelling up will be hard, but it is important to try.On employment relations, the employment Bill will - Link to Speech |
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Business of the House
83 speeches (9,528 words) Thursday 18th July 2024 - Commons Chamber Leader of the House Mentions: 1: Lucy Powell (LAB - Manchester Central) In the King’s Speech, we announced action in the employment Bill on establishing a fair pay agreement - Link to Speech |
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Employment (Allocation of Tips)
28 speeches (8,560 words) Tuesday 14th May 2024 - Commons Chamber Department for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade Mentions: 1: Dean Russell (Con - Watford) At the time, we were going to make it part of the Employment Bill. - Link to Speech 2: David Linden (SNP - Glasgow East) private Members’ Bills to move forward due to the sheer absence of the substantial Government employment Bill - Link to Speech 3: David Linden (SNP - Glasgow East) Member for Watford said it was regrettable that there was not an employment Bill. - Link to Speech |
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Terms and Conditions of Employment
25 speeches (4,688 words) Tuesday 14th May 2024 - Commons Chamber Department for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade Mentions: 1: Chris Stephens (SNP - Glasgow South West) Employment”, I thought that it was good news—after the 20 times the Government have committed to an employment Bill - Link to Speech 2: David Linden (SNP - Glasgow East) Does that not make the case for the Government bringing forward an employment Bill to deal with the issue - Link to Speech 3: Chris Stephens (SNP - Glasgow South West) I agree that there should be an employment Bill but, exactly as my hon. - Link to Speech |
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Business of the House
99 speeches (12,069 words) Thursday 14th March 2024 - Commons Chamber Leader of the House Mentions: 1: Alison Thewliss (SNP - Glasgow Central) Can we have a debate in Government time on the urgent need for an employment Bill, particularly to protect - Link to Speech |
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Employment and Trade Union Rights (Dismissal and Re-engagement) Bill [HL]
27 speeches (11,817 words) 2nd reading Friday 1st March 2024 - Lords Chamber Department for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade Mentions: 1: Lord Leong (Lab - Life peer) Also, will the Government bring forward the long-awaited employment Bill? - Link to Speech |
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Draft Carer's Leave Regulations 2024
Draft Maternity Leave, Adoption Leave and Shared Parental Leave (Amendment) Regulations 2024
15 speeches (6,759 words) Wednesday 21st February 2024 - General Committees Department for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade Mentions: 1: Justin Madders (Lab - Ellesmere Port and Neston) whom are women, to one week.”A promise to introduce the provisions as part of the now mythical employment Bill - Link to Speech 2: Kevin Hollinrake (Con - Thirsk and Malton) Member for Ellesmere Port and Neston mentioned the employment Bill, but he will be aware that there are - Link to Speech |
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Carer’s Leave Regulations 2024
12 speeches (4,468 words) Tuesday 6th February 2024 - Grand Committee Department for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade Mentions: 1: Lord Leong (Lab - Life peer) such a low priority on such important legislation, as evidenced by the complete absence of an employment Bill - Link to Speech 2: Lord Offord of Garvel (Con - Life peer) arguments.Finally, turning to the noble Lord, Lord Leong, I guess we understand why there was no employment Bill - Link to Speech |
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Maternity Leave, Adoption Leave and Shared Parental Leave (Amendment) Regulations 2024
6 speeches (1,934 words) Tuesday 30th January 2024 - Grand Committee Department for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade Mentions: 1: Lord Leong (Lab - Life peer) Since 2019, we have been promised more than 20 times an employment Bill that will“protect and enhance - Link to Speech 2: Lord Offord of Garvel (Con - Life peer) philosophical differences between the two sides of this place when it comes to employment matters and the employment Bill - Link to Speech |
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Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Bill
92 speeches (25,796 words) Committee stage Monday 22nd January 2024 - Grand Committee Department for Science, Innovation & Technology Mentions: 1: Lord Knight of Weymouth (Lab - Life peer) may be that, if the Government had delivered on their promise of many years now to deliver an employment Bill - Link to Speech |
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Tuesday 14th July 2026
Written Evidence - Elysium Ventures Group AIB0055 - Artificial Intelligence, business and the future of the workforce Artificial Intelligence, business and the future of the workforce - Business, Innovation, Science and Trade Committee Found: Building these standards into the UK Employment Bill and Online Safety Bill would ensure that AI integration |
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Tuesday 14th July 2026
Written Evidence - Trades Union Congress AIB0044 - Artificial Intelligence, business and the future of the workforce Artificial Intelligence, business and the future of the workforce - Business, Innovation, Science and Trade Committee Found: Recommendations: Government should legislate to implement the provisions set out in the TUC AI and Employment Bill |
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Tuesday 9th December 2025
Oral Evidence - The ACC Liverpool Group, Events Industry Alliance, and The Business of Events Major events - Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee Found: I have no arguments with legislation like an employment Bill. |
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Tuesday 9th December 2025
Oral Evidence - The ACC Liverpool Group, Events Industry Alliance, and The Business of Events Major events - Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee Found: I have no arguments with legislation like an employment Bill. |
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Tuesday 9th December 2025
Oral Evidence - Major Event Organisers Association, LIVE, and UK Events Major events - Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee Found: I have no arguments with legislation like an employment Bill. |
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Tuesday 9th December 2025
Oral Evidence - Major Event Organisers Association, LIVE, and UK Events Major events - Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee Found: I have no arguments with legislation like an employment Bill. |
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Wednesday 15th October 2025
Oral Evidence - National Private Hire and Taxi Association (NPHTA), GMB Union, Licensed Private Hire Car Association (The LPHCA), and Unite Taxi Education Liverpool Licensing of taxis and private hire vehicles - Transport Committee Found: In our opinion, the 2021 employment Bill was legally flawed in two senses. |
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Monday 16th June 2025
Oral Evidence - Zoom Home-based Working - Home-based Working Committee Found: We have the employment Bill going through at the moment, but I am not sure that that is mentioned in |
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Tuesday 13th May 2025
Oral Evidence - London Business School, University of Edinburgh Business School, and Warwick Institute for Employment Research Preparing for an Ageing Society - Economic Affairs Committee Found: Lord Turnbull: In the House, there is an employment Bill. |
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Thursday 20th March 2025
Written Evidence - The Poverty Alliance RJ0076 - Get Britain Working: Reforming Jobcentres Get Britain Working – Reforming Jobcentres - Work and Pensions Committee Found: therefore positively correlated with a lower risk of poverty and emphasis on job quality through the Employment Bill |
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Wednesday 12th February 2025
Written Evidence - Single Parent Rights SPL0023 - Equality at work: paternity and shared parental leave Equality at work: paternity and shared parental leave - Women and Equalities Committee Found: highly concerned that the Protected Paternity or Parental Partner leave amendment tabled for the Employment Bill |
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Tuesday 21st January 2025
Written Evidence - British Standards Institution ERB0072 - Make Work Pay: Employment Rights Bill Make Work Pay: Employment Rights Bill - Business, Innovation, Science and Trade Committee Found: develop a wider standards strategy to achieve the objectives of the Make Work Pay strategy and Employment Bill |
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Tuesday 21st January 2025
Written Evidence - Greene King ERB0081 - Make Work Pay: Employment Rights Bill Make Work Pay: Employment Rights Bill - Business, Innovation, Science and Trade Committee Found: When the Employment Bill was published in September 2024 we identified a number of areas that would |
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Tuesday 21st January 2025
Written Evidence - Protect ERB0005 - Make Work Pay: Employment Rights Bill Make Work Pay: Employment Rights Bill - Business, Innovation, Science and Trade Committee Found: Rights Bill delivers only partially on a key pledge of the Labour manifesto, which promised an employment bill |
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Tuesday 21st January 2025
Written Evidence - Evri ERB0016 - Make Work Pay: Employment Rights Bill Make Work Pay: Employment Rights Bill - Business, Innovation, Science and Trade Committee Found: consider other options to reform employment status and look at how it might work alongside other employment bill |
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Tuesday 21st January 2025
Written Evidence - Trades Union Congress (TUC) ERB0073 - Make Work Pay: Employment Rights Bill Make Work Pay: Employment Rights Bill - Business, Innovation, Science and Trade Committee Found: Despite promises1 to introduce an employment bill to tackle labour market exploitation, the previous |
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Tuesday 21st January 2025
Written Evidence - Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) ERB0093 - Make Work Pay: Employment Rights Bill Make Work Pay: Employment Rights Bill - Business, Innovation, Science and Trade Committee Found: The CIPD has previously called for an Employment Bill that can update employment law to better reflect |
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Tuesday 21st January 2025
Written Evidence - Fairwork ERB0029 - Make Work Pay: Employment Rights Bill Make Work Pay: Employment Rights Bill - Business, Innovation, Science and Trade Committee Found: Written submission from Fairwork (ERB0029) 1 POLICY BRIEF An Employment Bill for Workers in the Digital |
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Tuesday 21st January 2025
Written Evidence - Prospect ERB0064 - Make Work Pay: Employment Rights Bill Make Work Pay: Employment Rights Bill - Business, Innovation, Science and Trade Committee Found: We note that the previous Government repeatedly promised an Employment Bill but failed to bring one |
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Tuesday 21st January 2025
Written Evidence - Working Families ERB0098 - Make Work Pay: Employment Rights Bill Make Work Pay: Employment Rights Bill - Business, Innovation, Science and Trade Committee Found: Business and Trade Committee - Employment Bill Consultation 1 Business & Trade Select Committee: |
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Tuesday 14th January 2025
Oral Evidence - Evri, Deliveroo, and Uniqlo Make Work Pay: Employment Rights Bill - Business, Innovation, Science and Trade Committee Found: Hugo Martin: We have supported the employment Bill virtually in its entirety. |
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Tuesday 17th December 2024
Oral Evidence - BAE Systems, Jaguar Land Rover, and Jaguar Land Rover Make Work Pay: Employment Rights Bill - Business, Innovation, Science and Trade Committee Found: Because we have taken a progressive approach to our employment policies, the employment Bill does not |
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Tuesday 10th December 2024
Oral Evidence - Department for Science, Innovation and Technology, Department for Culture, Media and Sport, and Department for Business and Trade Scaling up - AI and creative tech - Communications and Digital Committee Found: views on the potential additional pressures that some of these businesses might face with the employment Bill |
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Tuesday 26th November 2024
Oral Evidence - Department for Business and Trade, and Department for Business and Trade The work of the Department for Business and Trade - Business, Innovation, Science and Trade Committee Found: achievement, but given that all of those workers in those insecure jobs had been promised an employment Bill |
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Wednesday 17th January 2024
Oral Evidence - Maria Caulfield MP, and HM Treasury Treasury Committee Found: The 2019 Queen’s Speech committed to an employment Bill, which could have included action on flexible |
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Wednesday 17th January 2024
Oral Evidence - Financial Conduct Authority, Financial Conduct Authority, Prudential Regulation Authority, and Prudential Regulation Authority Treasury Committee Found: The 2019 Queen’s Speech committed to an employment Bill, which could have included action on flexible |
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Employment: Endometriosis and Periods
Asked by: Alistair Strathern (Labour - Hitchin) Thursday 12th September 2024 Question to the Department for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade: To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether the Employment Bill will include (a) endometriosis and (b) other menstrual health conditions. Answered by Justin Madders - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Transport) The Government has set out its immediate priorities for reforming employment law in the Plan to Make Work Pay. The Plan includes a number of measures which may help people manage endometriosis and other menstrual conditions at work - including making sure people can benefit from flexible working and ensuring flexibility is a genuine default.
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‘Good work’ and the Employment Rights Bill - CBP-10307
Jul. 16 2025 Found: addressed several points in the Good Work Plan, and the Queen’s Speech of 201921 included an Employment Bill |
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Employment Rights Bill: Bill 81 of 2024-25 - LLN-2025-0017
Mar. 20 2025 Found: government.59 Mr Reynolds began by criticising the Conservatives for not having brought forward an employment bill |
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The Pubs Code - CBP-10135
Nov. 11 2024 Found: Legislation In June 2014 the Coalition Government introduced the Small Business, Enterprise and Employment Bill |
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Informal carers' employment rights and support - CBP-10021
Aug. 30 2024 Found: Queen’s Speech it would “introduce the entitlement to leave for unpaid carers” as part of an Employment Bill |
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Delegated powers and framework legislation - CBP-10046
Jul. 17 2024 Found: If we were considering an open -ended delegated power in, say, an Employment Bill allowing Ministers |
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Employment Bill 2026-27
Presented by Christopher Chope (Conservative - Christchurch) Private Members' Bill - Presentation Bill A Bill to make provision about the employment of foreign nationals; to make provision about the national minimum wage; and for connected purposes.
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Mar. 20 2025
Employment Rights Bill [HL]: HL Bill 81 of 2024-25 Employment Rights Act 2025 Briefing papers Found: government.59 Mr Reynolds began by criticising the Conservatives for not having brought forward an employment bill |
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Jan. 07 2025
Written evidence submitted by Greene King (ERB72) Employment Rights Act 2025 Written evidence Found: When the Employment Bill was published in September 2024 we identified a number of areas that would impact |
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Jan. 07 2025
Written evidence submitted by Prospect trade union (ERB71) Employment Rights Act 2025 Written evidence Found: The Employment Bill 10. |
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Dec. 17 2024
Written evidence submitted by the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) (supplementary) (ERB57) Employment Rights Act 2025 Written evidence Found: The CIPD has previously called for an Employment Bill that can update employment law to better reflect |
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Nov. 26 2024
Written evidence submitted by the Work Rights Centre (ERB04) Employment Rights Act 2025 Written evidence Found: over a nine -month period of maternity leave.8 Recommendation Our recommendation is for the Employment Bill |
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Nov. 26 2024
Written evidence submitted by Protect (ERB09) Employment Rights Act 2025 Written evidence Found: Rights Bill delivers only partially on a key pledge of the Labour manifesto, which promised an employment bill |
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Nov. 26 2024
Written evidence submitted by Health Equals (ERB07) Employment Rights Act 2025 Written evidence Found: The Employment Bill proposes some positive changes to workplace flexibilities and expansion of sick |
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Oct. 18 2024
Employment Rights Bill 2024-25 Employment Rights Act 2025 Briefing papers Found: workers, businesses, and entrepreneurs’.53 Measures to meet this commitment were included in the Employment Bill |
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Fair Banking APPG Document: Economic Crime Manifesto Found: Small Business, Enterprise and Employment Bill (Volume 584). |
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London APPG Document: London’s needs from the Spending Review – Wednesday 30th April – Minutes Found: He asked for the extension of this through the Employment Bill whilst also recognising that disabled |
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Modernising Employment APPG Document: Good Work, New Deal, and the Employment Bill: Driving the Future of Work Found: Good Work, New Deal, and the Employment Bill: Driving the Future of Work |
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Modernising Employment APPG Document: Women in the Workplace Found: New Employment Bill talks about day one rights, step in the right direction, and about a Fair Work Agency |
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Baby Loss APPG Document: 15 December 2021 Found: She recommended look at future legislation, noting the new Employment Bill or potential further legislation |
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Women and Work APPG Document: What does good employment look Found: She said that the Employment Bill is thought to return in 2022, and will present an opportunity to better |
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Women and Work APPG Document: Securing the Future of Women’s Work: Making Flexible Working a Reality Found: She mentioned that one of the advantages of putting flexible working into a new Employment Bill is that |
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Apprenticeships APPG Document: Annual Report 2020-2021 Found: both employers and providers to safeguard apprentices’ mental health as it brings forward an Employment Bill |
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Women and Work APPG Document: Building Back Better: Securing the Future of Women’s Employment – the Women and Work APPG annual report 2021 Found: include the right to request flexible working from ‘day one’ where possible within a future Employment Bill |
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Women and Work APPG Document: Career Progression Found: her arguments and hopes the Government will introduce flexibility from day one in the upcoming Employment Bill |
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Women and Work APPG Document: Future of the Workplace Found: She argued that the upcoming Employment Bill will be a great opportunity to ensure these gains are not |
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Women and Work APPG Document: Lockdown and Recovery Found: from home, and these are the galvanising forces that need to be pressed by MPs ahead of the Employment Bill |
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Monday 11th May 2026
Department for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade Source Page: Working Lives: the scale and nature of labour market non-compliance in the UK – final report Document: (PDF) Found: Government’s broken promise on employment bill will see “bad bosses celebrating”. https://www.tuc.org.uk |
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Friday 29th November 2024
Department for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade Source Page: Assessment of the scale and nature of labour market non-compliance in the UK: interim report Document: (PDF) Found: Government’s broken promise on employment bill will see “bad bosses celebrating”. |
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Friday 31st January 2025
Department for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade Source Page: DBT: senior officials’ business expenses, hospitality, and meetings, July to September 2024 Document: (webpage) Found: Trades Union Congress Regular catch up with General Secretary, to discuss Make Work Pay and the Employment Bill |
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Thursday 10th October 2024
Department for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade Source Page: Government unveils most significant reforms to employment rights Document: Government unveils most significant reforms to employment rights (webpage) Found: horizon for the millions who stand to benefit from the transformational changes in the proposed Employment Bill |
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Aug. 27 2026
Companies House Source Page: Companies House management information: April 2025 to March 2026 Document: (ODS) Statistics Found: to the following link: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/small-business-enterprise-and-employment-bill |
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May. 11 2026
Fair Work Agency Source Page: Working Lives: the scale and nature of labour market non-compliance in the UK – final report Document: (PDF) Statistics Found: Government’s broken promise on employment bill will see “bad bosses celebrating”. https://www.tuc.org.uk |
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Aug. 28 2025
Companies House Source Page: Companies House management information: April 2024 to March 2025 Document: (ODS) Statistics Found: to the following link: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/small-business-enterprise-and-employment-bill |
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Aug. 29 2024
Companies House Source Page: Companies House management information: April 2023 to March 2024 Document: (ODS) Statistics Found: to the following link: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/small-business-enterprise-and-employment-bill |
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Jul. 20 2026
Civil Nuclear Constabulary Source Page: CNPA Annual Report and Accounts 2025/26 Document: (PDF) Transparency Found: action workstream progressed Compliance with police vetting regulations Compliance with new Employment bill |
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Jul. 20 2026
Civil Nuclear Constabulary Source Page: CNPA Annual Report and Accounts 2025/26 Document: (PDF) Transparency Found: action workstream progressed Compliance with police vetting regulations Compliance with new Employment bill |
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Jun. 26 2025
Regulatory Policy Committee Source Page: Regulatory Policy Committee: minutes March 2025 Document: (PDF) Transparency Found: • Andrew Griffiths, the Shadow Business Secretary, said that the RPC’s opinion on the Employment Bill |
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Apr. 14 2025
Civil Nuclear Constabulary Source Page: CNC Annual Business Plan 2025/26 Document: (PDF) Transparency Found: Review and recommend changes regarding the impact of the new Employment Bill Q4 Required changes to |
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Mar. 13 2025
Gangmasters and Labour Abuse Authority Source Page: Gangmasters and Labour Abuse Authority: annual report and accounts 2023 to 2024 Document: (PDF) Transparency Found: ability to innovate. 15 In the medium term as discussed in the going concern disclosure, the Employment Bill |
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Mar. 13 2025
Gangmasters and Labour Abuse Authority Source Page: Gangmasters and Labour Abuse Authority: annual report and accounts 2023 to 2024 Document: (PDF) Transparency Found: In the medium term as discussed in the going concern disclosure, the Employment Bill 2024 has announced |
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Oct. 28 2024
Prime Minister's Office, 10 Downing Street Source Page: PM speech in Birmingham: 28 October 2024 Document: PM speech in Birmingham: 28 October 2024 (webpage) News and Communications Found: An employment bill that will finally make work pay. |
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Feb. 11 2016
Closed organisation: Department for Business, Innovation & Skills (BIS) Source Page: Employment Tribunal postponement procedures Document: (PDF) Closed consultation Found: Small Business, Enterprise and Employment Bill |
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Feb. 02 2016
Closed organisation: Department for Business, Innovation & Skills (BIS) Source Page: Purchasing goods and services: protection of small businesses Document: (PDF) Closed consultation Found: With this in mind, the measures we are introducing in the Small Business, Enterprise and Employment Bill |
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Thursday 30th May 2024
Communications and Ministerial Support Directorate Source Page: Ministerial engagements, travel and gifts: January 2024 Document: Ministerial engagements, travel and gifts: January 2024 (Excel) Found: Glasgow Centre for Inclusive Living, David Cameron, Chief Executive, Scottish Union of Supported Employment, Bill |
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The UK Employment Rights Bill
Tuesday 29th April 2025 This briefing describes the key topics covered by the UK Employment Rights Bill. This Bill is a significant piece of legislation currently being considered at Westminster. Although a UK Parliament Bill, the Bill is important in a Scottish context, as most of it applies to Scotland. View source webpage Found: government announced plans to legislate against tip deductions, including these proposals in the Employment Bill |
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Economic Growth (Support)
69 speeches (66,005 words) Wednesday 30th October 2024 - Main Chamber Mentions: 1: Griffin, Mark (Lab - Central Scotland) Some of the choices are hard, but they will mean an employment bill that will finally make work pay, - Link to Speech |
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Minister for Parliamentary Business
60 speeches (34,729 words) Tuesday 1st October 2024 - Committee Mentions: 1: Hepburn, Jamie (SNP - Cumbernauld and Kilsyth) information and smart data bill, the planning and infrastructure Bill, the railways bill, the employment bill - Link to Speech |
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Child Poverty
34 speeches (27,797 words) Tuesday 4th June 2024 - Main Chamber |
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PDF - report Inquiry: The Welsh Government’s Legislative Consent Memoranda Found: If we were considering an open-ended delegated power in, say, an Employment Bill allowing Ministers |
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PDF - Cost of living pressures Inquiry: Cost of Living Found: In the absence of a UK Employment Bill on workers’ rights coming forward, Dr Hann also pointed to voluntary |
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Tuesday 16th April 2024
Source Page: Fair Work Commission recommendations: progress report 2024 Document: Fair Work Commission recommendations: progress report 2024 (webpage) Found: However, we have urged the UK Government to bring forward an Employment Bill that not only establishes |
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Tuesday 28th February 2023
Source Page: Fair Work Commission recommendations: progress report February 2023 Document: Fair Work Commission recommendations: progress report 2023 (webpage) Found: market enforcement agency Recommendations: We have urged the UK Government to bring forward an Employment Bill |
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Tuesday 7th July 2015
Source Page: Research into the use of zero hours contracts in devolved Welsh public services Document: Research into the use of zero hours contracts in devolved Welsh public services (PDF) Found: become a thing of the past as provision has been made in the Small Business, Enterprise and Employment Bill |
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WQ89788
Asked by: Andrew RT Davies (Welsh Conservative Party - South Wales Central) Tuesday 28th November 2023 Question What assessment has the Minister made of the impact that the increase in minimum wage to £11.44 will have on tackling poverty? Answered by Minister for Social Justice and Chief Whip The UK Government’s decision to implement the recommendations of the Low Pay Commission and increase the National Living Wage and National Minimum Wage is the least we would expect. Whilst this increase will make a difference to the lowest paid workers, it will not end poverty pay. The National Living Wage and National Minimum Wage continues to lag behind the Real Living Wage, which is independently calculated to reflect the cost of living more accurately. We also know there are persistent issues with enforcement of the National Living Wage and National Minimum Wage across the UK. In 2019, the UK Government promised an Employment Bill and the establishment of a Single Enforcement Body to clamp down on non-compliance, instead many workers continue to be underpaid a minimum hourly rate they are entitled to. |
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WQ84775
Asked by: Joel James (Welsh Conservative Party - South Wales Central) Tuesday 22nd March 2022 Question What assessment has the Welsh Government made of the number of employees who were unfairly dismissed when COVID-19 furlough payments came to an end? Answered by Minister for Economy The Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme (JRS) was a UK Government scheme administered by HM Revenue and Customs and unfair dismissal falls under UK employment law. I understand the latest UK Government release of Employment Tribunal and Employment Appeal Tribunal data is for the period to March 2021, well before the end of the JRS. I am concerned we will see a rise in unfair dismissal cases. We continue to call upon the UK Government to stop stalling on its promised Employment Bill, establish the Single Enforcement Body and provide all workers with the employment rights and protections they deserve. |
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WQ82852
Asked by: Paul Davies (Welsh Conservative Party - Preseli Pembrokeshire) Friday 16th July 2021 Question Will the Minister outline what progress has been made in implementing the recommendations in the Fair Work Commission’s report? Answered by Deputy Minister for Social Partnership We are using the powers, policy levers and influence we have to progress the recommendations of the Fair Work Commission, whilst recognising the world of work continues to change. We established the Social Care Fair Work Forum and its associated working groups which seek to improve working conditions in social care. Delivering the Forum is a key recommendation of the Fair Work Commission and we are using it to inform our approach to delivering our commitment to pay social care workers the Real Living Wage. Workplace health and safety has been radically altered by coronavirus and we responded to this by creating the national Health and Safety Forum. This has brought together trade unions, the main employer bodies and the relevant enforcement agencies to share their work and collective experience in helping to keep workplaces safe. We have teamed up with our social partners to deliver a campaign to strengthen knowledge and understanding of workplace rights and responsibilities. Linking into the campaign, our work with Acas has seen them deliver additional free digital briefing sessions for employers and workers in Wales. This picks up on key recommendations to improve knowledge of rights, the ability of workers to pursue their rights, and to work with UK agencies and others on the same. Working across the Welsh Government, we are using levers such as the Economic Contract and the Code of Practice on Ethical Employment in Supply Chains to encourage fair work practices. We are strengthening the social partnership approach as a key mechanism through which we can make workplaces fairer, safer and better for all. We have consulted widely on a draft Social Partnership and Public Procurement Bill, which, if passed, will introduce new social partnership, socially responsible procurement and fair work duties. Finally, in line with the Fair Work Commission recommendations to influence in the non-devolved space, we continue to call on the UK Government to bring forward its promised Employment Bill and to commit additional resources to enforcement, so that workers have the statutory rights and protections they deserve. |
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Generative AI in the public sector
Wednesday 3rd July 2024 www.senedd.wales Welsh Parliament Senedd Research Generative AI – an overview Research Briefing July 2024 The Welsh Parliament is the democratically elected body that represents the interests of Wales and its people. Commonly known as the Senedd,... Found: The taskforce published a draft AI and Employment Bill in April 2024 and lobby for its incorporation |
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The European Union (Withdrawal Agreement) Bill
Wednesday 8th January 2020 National Assembly for Wales Senedd Research The Assembly and The European Union (Withdrawal Agreement) Bill Research Briefing January 2020 National Assembly for Wales Senedd Research The Assembly and The National Assembly for Wales is the democra... Found: announced in the Queen’s Speech that protection for EU workers’ rights will be included in an Employment Bill |
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The Queen's Speech 2014 - Research Paper
Wednesday 10th September 2014 National Assembly for Wales Research paper The Queen's Speech 2014 June 2014 Research Service The National Assembly for Wales is the democratically elected body that represents the interests of Wales and its people, makes laws for Wales and holds... Found: Small Business, Enterprise and Employment Bill................................... 2 2.2. |
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2. General scrutiny of the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care
Wednesday 4th March 2026 Mentions: 1: Dawn Bowden (Welsh Labour - Merthyr Tydfil and Rhymney) The fair pay agreement in England, part of the employment Bill—the fair pay agreement in England—will - Link to Speech |
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2. Welsh Government draft budget 2025-26
Thursday 16th January 2025 Mentions: 1: Dawn Bowden (Welsh Labour - Merthyr Tydfil and Rhymney) an awful lot in that, and I think the work that we're doing with the UK Government now on the employment Bill - Link to Speech |
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2. Disability and employment: evidence session 11
Monday 11th November 2024 Mentions: 1: None So, by itself, I don't think that the employment Bill can undo 14 years of austerity and a roll back - Link to Speech |
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3. Topical Questions
Wednesday 6th December 2023 Mentions: 1: Vaughan Gething (Welsh Labour and Co-operative Party - Cardiff South and Penarth) We're expecting an employment Bill that has not materialised. - Link to Speech |
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6. Plaid Cymru Debate: Industrial relations
Wednesday 1st March 2023 Mentions: 1: Hannah Blythyn (Welsh Labour - Delyn) legislation comes from a Conservative Government that has repeatedly failed to produce its promised employment Bill - Link to Speech |
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1. Questions to the Minister for Social Justice
Wednesday 6th July 2022 Mentions: 1: Hannah Blythyn (Welsh Labour - Delyn) of the cost-of-living crisis, they should actually go back and re-enact their commitment to an employment Bill - Link to Speech |
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1. Questions to the First Minister
Tuesday 10th May 2022 Mentions: 1: Mark Drakeford (Welsh Labour - Cardiff West) Where is the employment Bill in today's Queen's Speech? - Link to Speech |
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8. Statement by the Deputy Minister for Social Partnership: Fair Work: Annual progress update
Tuesday 29th March 2022 Mentions: 1: Hannah Blythyn (Welsh Labour - Delyn) But, of course, we need that legislation at a UK level and that employment Bill that was promised in - Link to Speech |
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2. Questions to the First Minister
Tuesday 29th March 2022 Mentions: 1: Mark Drakeford (Welsh Labour - Cardiff West) UK Government, this UK Government, promised in a Queen's Speech in 2019 that it would bring an employment Bill - Link to Speech |
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1. Questions to the Minister for Economy
Wednesday 9th June 2021 Mentions: 1: Sam Rowlands (Welsh Conservative Party - North Wales) lead to legislative action, which the UK Government yesterday confirmed their commitment to the employment Bill - Link to Speech 2: Vaughan Gething (Welsh Labour and Co-operative Party - Cardiff South and Penarth) An employment Bill that helps to move things forward—that, again, would be a good thing, and depending - Link to Speech |
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1. Questions to the First Minister
Tuesday 8th June 2021 Mentions: 1: Mark Drakeford (Welsh Labour - Cardiff West) In 2019, Llywydd, in the Queen's Speech, the UK Government promised an employment Bill. - Link to Speech 2: Paul Davies (Welsh Conservative Party - Preseli Pembrokeshire) Governments across the UK, and I understand that the UK Government has confirmed that there will be an employment Bill - Link to Speech |