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Debate between Sajid Javid and Angela Rayner(8 years, 7 months ago)
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Angela Rayner (Ashton-under-Lyne) (Lab)
T8. In the Secretary of State’s discussions with Tata, will he have time to raise Tata’s involvement in the outsourcing of up to 800 jobs from British Airways, including its centre in south Manchester, which supplies jobs to my constituents and has already announced 80 redundancies? As The Daily Telegraph revealed last week, this is another example where Tata’s actions threaten our national security along with our jobs, so will the Government step in to protect both?
Sajid Javid
If the hon. Lady wants to send me more detailed information about that, I will gladly take a closer look.
Trade Union Bill
Debate between Sajid Javid and Angela Rayner(9 years, 2 months ago)
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Sajid Javid
This is an issue about check-off, not auto-enrolment. Several Whitehall Departments have already begun the process to remove check-off, and now we will apply that process to all parts of the public sector.
On facility time, the Government have a moral duty to ensure that taxpayers get maximum value for money out of every penny they provide the Exchequer. With that in mind, it is hard to justify paying a public servant to do a vital job, only for them to spend their day working for another employer. Yet this is exactly what is happening in the public sector today.
Angela Rayner (Ashton-under-Lyne) (Lab)
Before I came to this place, I was a public sector worker—a home help—and an elected trade union official for a public service, after more than 200,000 members voted for me, and I can tell the Secretary of State that the work I did saved my local authority 10 times what I was paid in facility time. Does he agree that the Bill is anti-business and anti-working practice and that most employers that have trade unions recognise their value?
Sajid Javid
I wholeheartedly disagree with the hon. Lady. There is nothing wrong with an employee doing union work, but it should be open and transparent.
Sajid Javid
Then this will make it even more transparent. If the hon. Lady looks at the changes, she should be able to agree with them.