Employment and Trade Union Rights (Dismissal and Re-engagement) Bill
Debate between Christine Jardine and Barry Gardiner
Friday 22nd October 2021
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Christine Jardine (Edinburgh West) (LD)
The hon. Lady is making some excellent points and, like the hon. Member for Swansea West (Geraint Davies), I feel they might be better made in Committee. Does the hon. Lady agree that part of the motivation for the Bill is not to do away with the practice completely? It says that fire and rehire or change of contracts in exceptional circumstances can be done with negotiation, consultations and so on. The motivation was that several major companies appeared to be using the current crisis as something to hide behind and institute unfair fire and rehire practices at a time of already mounting stress and emotional trauma for a lot of people.
