Employment Bill [HL]

I am grateful for that but I did say that Morecombe Bay was casting a long shadow—and further long shadows are cast before those. This clause has the shadow of gangmasters upon it; that is my concern. My concern, on which noble Lords may guide me as they please, is that we have a situation in which we could easily come to the point of focusing and crystallising a point of law that relates to gangmasters, allowing significant employers of large numbers of temporary staff to fall through the loop so that they would not be addressed by the Bill. I am concerned that if we are doing this job we are not doing it well or thoroughly enough unless we somehow encapsulate a responsibility on behalf of the underprivileged young workers who form gangs and are used in other forms of short-term employment in which they are very vulnerable.