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  Opposition Day - Employment Rights - Strategy for Creating Higher Skilled Better Paid Jobs
  
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  @ MP voted no against strengthening employment rights and against calling on the Government to adopt a strategy for creating more high-skilled, better paid jobs.
  @ MP voted aye to strengthen employment rights and to call on the Government to adopt a strategy for creating more high-skilled, better paid jobs.
  
  The majority of MPs voted against strengthening employment rights and against calling on the Government to adopt a strategy for creating more high-skilled, better paid jobs.
  
  The text of the motion rejected in the vote was:
  
  :That this House
  :''believes'' that insecurity at work has increased under this Government, compounding the cost of living crisis facing families;
  :''further believes'' that the Governmentâs policies have made life less secure for people at work by watering down their rights, including protections against unfair dismissal and by abandoning an evidence-based approach to health and safety;
  :''notes'' that the number of employees working part-time who want to work full-time has grown by over 350,000 since the Government took office to over 1.4 million, alongside a marked rise in zero-hours contracts;
  recognises that insecure jobs add to pressure on the social security budget by making it harder for people to buy a home or save for their own pension;
  :''calls on the Government'' to reverse the trend of rising insecurity at work by reforming zero-hours contracts so they are not exploitative, addressing false self-employment by closing loopholes which allow it to take place, scrapping the failed âshares for rightsâ scheme, strengthening and properly enforcing the National Minimum Wage, including by increasing fines to Â£50,000 and giving local authorities enforcement powers, and incentivising employers to pay a Living Wage through âmake work payâ
  contracts; and 
  :''further calls'' on the Government to adopt a proper industrial strategy to help create more high-skilled, better paid jobs so the UK can earn its way out of the cost of living crisis with stronger and better-balanced growth.
  
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