Economic Growth and Employment

Nick de Bois Excerpts

Wednesday 23rd November 2011 Commons Chamber

[Mr Umunna]

I withdraw that comment.

The hon. Gentleman asked whether business organisations were in favour of increasing the unfair dismissal service requirement from one to two years. That policy may sound good on the face of it, but what will happen—I say this as a former employment lawyer—is that we will simply end up with more employees making spurious discrimination claims, because there is no service requirement for them. When we put that to businesses, they take quite a different point of view of the policy.

[Nick de Bois (Enfield North) (Con)]

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[Julian Smith]

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