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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
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
12 Mar 2025, 2:28 p.m. - House of Commons
"that the government is seeking to introduce, taken together the measures of the employment Bill, national insurance, business rates changes, everything else, small businesses feel overwhelmed. All "
Daisy Cooper MP (St Albans, Liberal Democrat) - View Video - View Transcript
12 Mar 2025, 2:30 p.m. - House of Commons
"rights enforcement is a fact, fair, fit for purpose. In conclusion, there is much in the employment Bill "
Daisy Cooper MP (St Albans, Liberal Democrat) - View Video - View Transcript
11 Mar 2025, 6:11 p.m. - House of Commons
"alongside this employment Bill. I also acknowledge the amendment tabled by the committee chair, "
Andy McDonald MP (Middlesbrough and Thornaby East, Labour) - View Video - View Transcript
11 Mar 2025, 2:27 p.m. - House of Commons
"last year and met just once in the year before? As with the long- awaited employment Bill, which never materialised, is it not the case "
Greg Smith MP (Mid Buckinghamshire, Conservative) - View Video - View Transcript
11 Mar 2025, 2:56 p.m. - House of Commons
"growth and whether the employment Bill actually drives economic growth. I know from my time on the "
Steve Darling MP (Torbay, Liberal Democrat) - View Video - View Transcript
11 Mar 2025, 3:05 p.m. - House of Commons
"that this employment bill is a little like that. Where actually it may have lots of promise on the "
Steve Darling MP (Torbay, Liberal Democrat) - View Video - View Transcript
12 Mar 2025, 5:02 p.m. - House of Commons
">> I thank her four giving way. She will recall that in 2017, when the Conservative party announced the Employment Bill that was never "
Becky Gittins MP (Clwyd East, Labour) - View Video - View Transcript
12 Mar 2025, 5:02 p.m. - House of Commons
"Employment Bill that was never produced, they said that it would represent the biggest upgrade of "
Becky Gittins MP (Clwyd East, Labour) - View Video - View Transcript
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
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
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
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
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


Parliamentary Debates
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

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

Employment Rights Bill
222 speeches (43,482 words)
Report stage (day 2)
Wednesday 12th March 2025 - Commons Chamber
Department for Business 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

“Chapter 4A
177 speeches (47,644 words)
Tuesday 11th March 2025 - Commons Chamber
Department for Business 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

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

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

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

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

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

Employment Rights Bill (Seventeenth sitting)
78 speeches (13,014 words)
Committee stage: 17th Sitting
Thursday 9th January 2025 - Public Bill Committees
Department for Business 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

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

Stellantis Luton
13 speeches (4,955 words)
Thursday 28th November 2024 - Lords Chamber
Department for Business 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

Employment Rights Bill (Second sitting)
117 speeches (30,790 words)
Committee stage: 2nd sitting
Tuesday 26th November 2024 - Public Bill Committees
Department for Business 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

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

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 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



Select Committee Documents
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

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

Tuesday 21st January 2025
Written Evidence - British Standards Institution
ERB0072 - Make Work Pay: Employment Rights Bill

Make Work Pay: Employment Rights Bill - Business and Trade Committee

Found: develop a wider standards strategy to achieve the objectives of the Make Work Pay strategy and Employment Bill

Tuesday 21st January 2025
Written Evidence - Greene King
ERB0081 - Make Work Pay: Employment Rights Bill

Make Work Pay: Employment Rights Bill - Business and Trade Committee

Found: When the Employment Bill was published in September 2024 we identified a number of areas that would

Tuesday 21st January 2025
Written Evidence - Protect
ERB0005 - Make Work Pay: Employment Rights Bill

Make Work Pay: Employment Rights Bill - Business and Trade Committee

Found: Rights Bill delivers only partially on a key pledge of the Labour manifesto, which promised an employment bill

Tuesday 21st January 2025
Written Evidence - Evri
ERB0016 - Make Work Pay: Employment Rights Bill

Make Work Pay: Employment Rights Bill - Business and Trade Committee

Found: consider other options to reform employment status and look at how it might work alongside other employment bill

Tuesday 21st January 2025
Written Evidence - Trades Union Congress (TUC)
ERB0073 - Make Work Pay: Employment Rights Bill

Make Work Pay: Employment Rights Bill - Business and Trade Committee

Found: Despite promises1 to introduce an employment bill to tackle labour market exploitation, the previous

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 and Trade Committee

Found: The CIPD has previously called for an Employment Bill that can update employment law to better reflect

Tuesday 21st January 2025
Written Evidence - Fairwork
ERB0029 - Make Work Pay: Employment Rights Bill

Make Work Pay: Employment Rights Bill - Business and Trade Committee

Found: Written submission from Fairwork (ERB0029) 1 POLICY BRIEF An Employment Bill for Workers in the Digital

Tuesday 21st January 2025
Written Evidence - Prospect
ERB0064 - Make Work Pay: Employment Rights Bill

Make Work Pay: Employment Rights Bill - Business and Trade Committee

Found: We note that the previous Government repeatedly promised an Employment Bill but failed to bring one

Tuesday 21st January 2025
Written Evidence - Working Families
ERB0098 - Make Work Pay: Employment Rights Bill

Make Work Pay: Employment Rights Bill - Business and Trade Committee

Found: Business and Trade Committee - Employment Bill Consultation 1 Business & Trade Select Committee:

Tuesday 14th January 2025
Oral Evidence - Evri, Deliveroo, and Uniqlo

Make Work Pay: Employment Rights Bill - Business and Trade Committee

Found: Hugo Martin: We have supported the employment Bill virtually in its entirety.

Tuesday 17th December 2024
Oral Evidence - BAE Systems, Jaguar Land Rover, and Jaguar Land Rover

Make Work Pay: Employment Rights Bill - Business and Trade Committee

Found: Because we have taken a progressive approach to our employment policies, the employment Bill does not

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

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 and Trade Committee

Found: achievement, but given that all of those workers in those insecure jobs had been promised an employment Bill



Parliamentary Research
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

The Pubs Code - CBP-10135
Nov. 11 2024

Found: Legislation In June 2014 the Coalition Government introduced the Small Business, Enterprise and Employment Bill



Bill Documents
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

Jan. 07 2025
Written evidence submitted by Prospect trade union (ERB71)
Employment Rights Bill 2024-26
Written evidence

Found: The Employment Bill 10.

Jan. 07 2025
Written evidence submitted by Greene King (ERB72)
Employment Rights Bill 2024-26
Written evidence

Found: When the Employment Bill was published in September 2024 we identified a number of areas that would impact

Dec. 17 2024
Written evidence submitted by the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) (supplementary) (ERB57)
Employment Rights Bill 2024-26
Written evidence

Found: The CIPD has previously called for an Employment Bill that can update employment law to better reflect

Nov. 26 2024
Written evidence submitted by the Work Rights Centre (ERB04)
Employment Rights Bill 2024-26
Written evidence

Found: over a nine -month period of maternity leave.8 Recommendation Our recommendation is for the Employment Bill

Nov. 26 2024
Written evidence submitted by Protect (ERB09)
Employment Rights Bill 2024-26
Written evidence

Found: Rights Bill delivers only partially on a key pledge of the Labour manifesto, which promised an employment bill

Nov. 26 2024
Written evidence submitted by Health Equals (ERB07)
Employment Rights Bill 2024-26
Written evidence

Found: The Employment Bill proposes some positive changes to workplace flexibilities and expansion of sick



Department Publications - Transparency
Friday 31st January 2025
Department for Business 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



Department Publications - Statistics
Friday 29th November 2024
Department for Business 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”.



Non-Departmental Publications - Transparency
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

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