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Small Business, Enterprise and Employment Bill

No—that is not a correct statement. I made it very clear in my opening remarks that this is a problem. My amendment says:

“Such workers shall be eligible for inclusion within the national insurance system”,

and that does not exclude others. I would obviously expect, as the noble Lord absolutely rightly recognises, that that would apply to people on ZHCs. However, as I made very clear in my opening remarks, this affects all those on short-hour or part-time contracts, where in any one job they are not over £5,700, but could by aggregation or in this way, by lowering the LEL, come within the NI system. If we believe in encouraging people into work, we should do this.

Type
Proceeding contribution
Reference
759 c50GC 
Session
2014-15
Chamber / Committee
House of Lords Grand Committee
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