Strikes: Cover by Agency Workers Debate
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Baroness Chakrabarti
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Strikes: Cover by Agency Workers
Baroness Chakrabarti Excerpts(2 years, 5 months ago)
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Lord Callanan (Con)
If agencies do not wish to take part in the freedoms offered by these regulations then it is entirely their right not to do so.
Baroness Chakrabarti (Lab)
My Lords, this is hardly St Francis of Assisi, is it? As this is not specifically about the rail workers, are the Government confident that they will find these armies of agency junior doctors and junior barristers down the track?
Lord Callanan (Con)
As I said, this applies in all sectors of the economy. Agencies already supply a considerable number of personnel in the fields that the noble Baroness mentioned.