Employment Bill [Lords]

There is a catch-all provision in proposed new subsection (4G) relating to circumstances in which"““the decision to exclude or expel is taken unfairly””," and the subsequent hardship provisions provide additional safeguards, which my hon. Friend's new clause would not do. The additional safeguards in clause 19 are the kind of safeguards that the Joint Committee on Human Rights report talked about, and that the ASLEF judgment hinted at. On balance, I think that we have to leave clause 19 in place—imperfect though it is—rather than adopting my hon. Friend's new clause, even though he and I wish to obtain the same objective in the end.