Employment Rights Bill: Productivity Debate
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Employment Rights Bill: Productivity
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Baroness Jones of Whitchurch (Lab)
The noble Baroness makes a very good point. It is slightly beyond my brief today, but I am sure that if there is scope we will embrace that idea, which is a very sensible one.
Lord Woodley (Lab)
My Lords, as a former leader of the Unite the Union, I warmly welcome this Bill, but I would like to see it go a little bit further when we deal with sectoral collective bargaining. Can the Minister listen to employment rights experts when they say that sectoral collective bargaining underpinned by legislation is the right way to achieve wider and broader growth in the economy and, importantly, a growth in productivity?
Baroness Jones of Whitchurch (Lab)
The employment Bill that we have before us today is a very substantial piece of legislation. There will be further opportunities in the make work pay plan to come back to some of the wider issues and I look forward to debating those when the opportunity arises.