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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
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
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
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


Calendar
Friday 4th December 2026
Christopher Chope (Conservative - Christchurch)

Private Members' Bills - Main Chamber
Subject: Employment Bill: Second Reading
Employment Bill 2026-27
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Parliamentary Debates
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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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, 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

“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

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, 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

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, 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

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

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, 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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



Select Committee Documents
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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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, Innovation, Science 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, Innovation, Science 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, Innovation, Science 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, Innovation, Science 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, Innovation, Science 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, Innovation, Science 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, Innovation, Science 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, Innovation, Science 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, Innovation, Science 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, Innovation, Science 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, Innovation, Science 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, Innovation, Science and Trade Committee

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

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

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



Written Answers
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.

Some of the measures in Make Work Pay will be delivered through an Employment Bill. The Government will confirm the contents of that Bill in due course.



Parliamentary Research
‘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

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

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

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



Bills and Acts
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.

Commons - 20%



Bill Documents
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

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

Jan. 07 2025
Written evidence submitted by Prospect trade union (ERB71)
Employment Rights Act 2025
Written evidence

Found: The Employment Bill 10.

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

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

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

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

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



APPG Publications

Fair Banking APPG
Wednesday 11th June 2025


Document: Economic Crime Manifesto

Found: Small Business, Enterprise and Employment Bill (Volume 584).

London APPG
Wednesday 11th June 2025


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

Modernising Employment APPG
Wednesday 11th June 2025


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

Modernising Employment APPG
Wednesday 11th June 2025


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

Baby Loss APPG
Wednesday 11th June 2025


Document: 15 December 2021

Found: She recommended look at future legislation, noting the new Employment Bill or potential further legislation

Women and Work APPG
Wednesday 11th June 2025


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

Women and Work APPG
Wednesday 11th June 2025


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

Apprenticeships APPG
Wednesday 11th June 2025


Document: Annual Report 2020-2021

Found: both employers and providers to safeguard apprentices’ mental health as it brings forward an Employment Bill

Women and Work APPG
Wednesday 11th June 2025


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

Women and Work APPG
Wednesday 11th June 2025


Document: Career Progression

Found: her arguments and hopes the Government will introduce flexibility from day one in the upcoming Employment Bill

Women and Work APPG
Wednesday 11th June 2025


Document: Future of the Workplace

Found: She argued that the upcoming Employment Bill will be a great opportunity to ensure these gains are not

Women and Work APPG
Wednesday 11th June 2025


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



Department Publications - Statistics
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

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”.



Department Publications - Transparency
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



Department Publications - News and Communications
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



Non-Departmental Publications - Statistics
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

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

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

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



Non-Departmental Publications - Transparency
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

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

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

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

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



Non-Departmental Publications - News and Communications
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. 



Non-Departmental Publications - Closed consultation
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

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




Employment Bill 2022-23 mentioned in Scottish results


Scottish Government Publications
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



Scottish Parliamentary Research (SPICe)
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



Scottish Parliamentary Debates
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

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

Child Poverty
34 speeches (27,797 words)
Tuesday 4th June 2024 - Main Chamber



Employment Bill 2022-23 mentioned in Welsh results


Welsh Committee Publications

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


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



Welsh Government Publications
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

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

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



Welsh Written Answers
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.

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.  

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. 



Welsh Senedd Research
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

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

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.



Welsh Senedd Debates
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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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