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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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8 Apr 2025, 2:31 p.m. - House of Commons "called for an office whistleblower and have amendments down to the employment bill to strengthen protections for whistleblowers and I " Daisy Cooper MP (St Albans, Liberal Democrat) - View Video - View Transcript |
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23 Apr 2025, 9:25 p.m. - House of Lords "small businesses. Some worry about the cost of the Employment Bill, now " Lord Kamall (Conservative) - View Video - View Transcript |
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29 Apr 2025, 3:50 p.m. - House of Lords "Fair Work Agency, Employment Bill time limits, trade union reform and " Lord Hunt of Wirral (Conservative) - View Video - View Transcript |
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29 Apr 2025, 7:30 p.m. - House of Lords "the employment Bill to which we provided good use, and of course, " Lord Leigh of Hurley (Conservative) - View Video - View Transcript |
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29 Apr 2025, 7:19 p.m. - House of Lords "employment bill. But if this bill " Amendment:5 Baroness Noakes (Conservative) - View Video - View Transcript |
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8 May 2025, 1:31 p.m. - House of Lords "saying, in this new employment Bill, " Lord Moynihan of Chelsea (Conservative) - View Video - View Transcript |
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8 May 2025, 3:40 p.m. - House of Lords "employment bill, as dealing with the mechanics of it, and the previous answer you give to my probing " Lord Goddard of Stockport (Liberal Democrat) - View Video - View Transcript |
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8 May 2025, 3:40 p.m. - House of Lords "objective. I wonder why we can't be a little bit closer with the employment bill, as dealing with the " Lord Goddard of Stockport (Liberal Democrat) - View Video - View Transcript |
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8 May 2025, 5:24 p.m. - House of Commons "businesses are facing? And will he finally shalt the unemployed bill -- the Employment Bill that is cutting jobs and seeing people choking the " Andrew Griffith MP (Arundel and South Downs, Conservative) - View Video - View Transcript |
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12 May 2025, 3:32 p.m. - House of Commons ">> I can absolutely ensure, reassure my honourable friend that is what we intend to do. Our Employment Bill is " Rt Hon Liz Kendall MP, The Secretary of State for Work and Pensions (Leicester West, Labour) - View Video - View Transcript |
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12 May 2025, 3:32 p.m. - House of Commons "intend to do. Our Employment Bill is absolutely about ensuring we improve the quality of jobs, data security " Rt Hon Liz Kendall MP, The Secretary of State for Work and Pensions (Leicester West, Labour) - View Video - View Transcript |
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1 Jul 2025, 12:55 p.m. - House of Commons "union-led redtape in the employment Bill which will upset a carefully " Greg Smith MP (Mid Buckinghamshire, Conservative) - View Video - View Transcript |
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10 Jul 2025, 12:27 p.m. - House of Lords "time to time. The numbers deteriorated significantly over the last 10 years, there were around 6,000, presently 2000. In the Employment Bill, trying to give them " Lord Hogan-Howe (Crossbench) - View Video - View Transcript |
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10 Jul 2025, 1:06 p.m. - House of Lords "noble Lord Alton has mentioned. Because the employment bill is about employment rights. And overseas " Lord Hanson of Flint, The Minister of State, Home Department (Labour) - View Video - View Transcript |
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21 May 2025, 1:19 p.m. - House of Commons "sparred on the important subject of the 300 page 120,000 word Employment Bill, it is never too late. That is undergoing scrutiny in the other " Andrew Griffith MP (Arundel and South Downs, Conservative) - View Video - View Transcript |
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3 Jun 2025, 6:02 p.m. - House of Lords "thought this bill was called the employment bill, but clearly the Government, it is an appointment " Lord Goddard of Stockport (Liberal Democrat) - View Video - View Transcript |
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16 Jun 2025, 6:13 p.m. - House of Lords "employment Bill, addresses the arts and cultural sector, in speaking to these amendments I declare my interest as an artist member. I " Lord Freyberg (Crossbench) - View Video - View Transcript |
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16 Jun 2025, 6:29 p.m. - House of Lords "is an employment bill, not an employee bill, would have included consideration of the self-employed freelancers, a group which includes " The Earl of Clancarty (Crossbench) - View Video - View Transcript |
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16 Jun 2025, 6:29 p.m. - House of Lords "creative into. I very much support this bill as far as it goes, but a truly modern Employment Bill, and it " The Earl of Clancarty (Crossbench) - View Video - View Transcript |
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16 Jun 2025, 9:16 p.m. - House of Lords "delayed, specifically in respect to SMEs defined by the small business enterprise and employment Bill. To " Lord Leigh of Hurley (Conservative) - View Video - View Transcript |
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18 Jun 2025, 4:14 p.m. - House of Lords "sentiment, I will fully enjoy discussing the Employment Bill on " Lord Goddard of Stockport (Liberal Democrat) - View Video - View Transcript |
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14 Jul 2025, 6:57 p.m. - House of Lords "duties as a special constable. I should've waited. In 2018, section 50 of the Employment Bill was " Lord Hogan-Howe (Crossbench) - View Video - View Transcript |
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15 Jul 2025, 8:39 p.m. - House of Lords "might want to help me out with the Employment Bill tomorrow if you are free because that is another bill " Lord Goddard of Stockport (Liberal Democrat) - View Video - View Transcript |
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17 Jul 2025, 2:19 p.m. - House of Lords "have spent a lot of time in the Employment Bill, that is partly to ensure we do undertake those " Lord Hanson of Flint, The Minister of State, Home Department (Labour) - View Video - View Transcript |
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23 Jul 2025, 7:11 p.m. - House of Lords "Employment, Jim Prior, introduced an employment bill which restricted " Baroness O'Grady of Upper Holloway (Labour) - View Video - View Transcript |
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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 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 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 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 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 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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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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‘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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Mar. 20 2025
Employment Rights Bill [HL]: HL Bill 81 of 2024-25 Employment Rights Bill 2024-26 Briefing papers Found: government.59 Mr Reynolds began by criticising the Conservatives for not having brought forward an 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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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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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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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 |