Parliamentary search - Employment Bill [HL]

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Parliamentary proceeding

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700 c171-96GC

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2007-08

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Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform

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House of Lords Grand Committee

Employment Bill (HL). (Explanatory Notes HL Bill 13-EN published).
Thursday, 6 December 2007
Bills
House of Lords

Employment Bill (HL). As amended in Grand Committee.
Thursday, 3 April 2008
Bills
House of Lords

Proceeding contributions

Baroness Turner of Camden | 700 c184GC (Link to this contribution) I support the amendment, to which I have put my name, because it seemed to me that my noble friend L...

Lord Lester of Herne Hill | 700 c178GC (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the noble Lord. Is he aware that the BNP has registered itself as a trade union? Wh...

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Lord Wedderburn of Charlton | 700 c187-8GC (Link to this contribution) I am very grateful to everyone who spoke—with one exception—in support of the amendment. On the amen...

Baroness Ashton of Upholland | 700 c193-4GC (Link to this contribution) It is a great pleasure to be with the Grand Committee. I am here as a result of paragraph 7.52, ““Ad...

Lord Campbell of Alloway | 700 c175GC (Link to this contribution) Can I respectfully ask a question? I do not indulge in this sort of thing; it is a genuine question....

Lord Campbell of Alloway | 700 c171-3GC (Link to this contribution) I will try not to take too much time. At the outset I have had to give notice that a little local di...

Lord Lester of Herne Hill | 700 c181GC (Link to this contribution) Is the Minister aware that most of the arguments against what he has just said were deployed by the ...

Baroness Gardner of Parkes | 700 c185-6GC (Link to this contribution) I, too, support the amendment as I think that the points made on it have been very sound. In my expe...

Lord Razzall | 700 c185GC (Link to this contribution) We agree with the amendment in the name of the noble Lord, Lord Wedderburn. To take the point that t...

Lord Henley | 700 c178GC (Link to this contribution) I am sure that with reasonable trade union general secretaries such as the noble Lord—my noble neigh...

Lord Wedderburn of Charlton | 700 c194GC (Link to this contribution) With leave, I shall not move any of the three amendments at issue. I have discussed the matter with ...

Lord Bach | 700 c196GC (Link to this contribution) moved Amendment No. 28A: 28A: Clause 20, page 16, line 30, leave out ““section 13 comes”” and inse...

Lord Razzall | 700 c193GC (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the Minister for that offer, and I will discuss with my colleagues how best to take...

Lord Bach | 700 c192-3GC (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to noble Lords who have spoken in this debate, not least to the noble Lord, Lord Razza...

Lord Lester of Herne Hill | 700 c174-5GC (Link to this contribution) I agree with everything that the noble Baroness, Lady Perry, has said. I hope, for a barrister, I sh...

Lord Bach | 700 c181GC (Link to this contribution) A number of matters need to be thought about carefully between now and Report; that is what I was co...

Lord Wedderburn of Charlton | 700 c182-4GC (Link to this contribution) moved Amendment No. 27A: 27A: After Clause 17, insert the following new Clause— ““Employment and i...

Lord Bach | 700 c178-81GC (Link to this contribution) I thank all noble Lords for contributing to what in some ways is a repeat discussion on Clause 17, a...

Lord Henley | 700 c177GC (Link to this contribution) My noble friend Lord Campbell of Alloway sought some clarification, particularly from me on the posi...

Lord Brett | 700 c177-8GC (Link to this contribution) I do not think I have heard so many warm words about trade unionists and trade unions from Conservat...

Lord Razzall | 700 c195GC (Link to this contribution) As they would say in the Court of Appeal, I agree entirely with the remarks of the noble Lord, Lord ...

Lord Wedderburn of Charlton | 700 c190-1GC (Link to this contribution) I wish to make two points. First, I express some surprise that no advice was given that this amendme...

Lord James of Blackheath | 700 c191GC (Link to this contribution) I enter this debate somewhat late because it is seven weeks since I was buried alive in Crossrail. T...

Lord James of Blackheath | 700 c191-2GC (Link to this contribution) I am grateful for that but I did say that Morecombe Bay was casting a long shadow—and further long s...

Baroness Perry of Southwark | 700 c173-4GC (Link to this contribution) My noble friend has, as so often, succeeded in making me realise how very ill informed and un-legall...

Lord Borrie | 700 c184-5GC (Link to this contribution) I, too, support the amendment. It appealed to me to a considerable extent, and therefore I wanted to...

Lord Campbell of Alloway | 700 c181-2GC (Link to this contribution) Before withdrawing, as is inevitable in these circumstances, I want to say a word of gratitude to th...

Lord Bach | 700 c186-7GC (Link to this contribution) I thank my noble friend Lord Wedderburn for raising this important issue. I do not know whether he w...

Lord Cotter | 700 c185GC (Link to this contribution) I shall make the shortest of contributions to support what my noble friend said. I have really only ...

Lord Lester of Herne Hill | 700 c175-6GC (Link to this contribution) I am certainly not a government adviser on what we are discussing today. I am a government adviser o...

Lord Borrie | 700 c176GC (Link to this contribution) I seek elucidation from the noble Lord, Lord Lester. One of the safeguards to which he referred was ...

Lord Lester of Herne Hill | 700 c176GC (Link to this contribution) The noble Lord, Lord Borrie, raises an important point, which I shall explain. I used the words ““ex...

Lord Wedderburn of Charlton | 700 c176-7GC (Link to this contribution) I am in great agreement with the noble Lord, Lord Lester, with one exception, which I shall explain ...

Lord Henley | 700 c178GC (Link to this contribution) What the BNP does in terms of registering itself either as a political party or a trade union is a m...

Baroness Turner of Camden | 700 c194-5GC (Link to this contribution) This arose because my noble friend Lord Wedderburn was away and I discussed the issue with the Clerk...

Lord Henley | 700 c194GC (Link to this contribution) The noble Lord is absolutely right on this occasion, first, to have insisted on his right to have th...

Lord Bach | 700 c196GC (Link to this contribution) moved Amendment No. 30: 30: In the Title, line 5, after ““Volunteers”” insert ““and voluntary work...

Lord Razzall | 700 c189-90GC (Link to this contribution) moved Amendment No. 28: 28: Before Clause 18, insert the following new Clause— ““Contracts of serv...

Lord Wedderburn of Charlton | 700 c193GC (Link to this contribution) had given notice of his intention to move Amendment No. 28ZA, to insert a new clause, Gangmasters: f...

Lord Bach | 700 c191GC (Link to this contribution) We are not talking about gangmasters under this amendment, unless I have missed something from the n...

Subjects

Conditions of employment

Contracts

Employment

Membership

Political parties

Trade unions

Voluntary work

Legislation

Employment Bill (HL) 2007-08

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