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  Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Bill - Clause 12 - Confidentiality of negotiations before termination of employment
  
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  MPs were considering the Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Bill[1]. The amendment[2] rejected in this vote was:
  
  :Amendment 81, page 8, line 19, leave out Clause 12
  
  
  Explanatory notes[3], published after the vote, explain aim of Clause 12[4][5] is to "facilitate the use of settlement agreements as a means of ending the employment relationship", the clause makes an offer to terminate the employment relationship on agreed terms is not admissible as evidence in any subsequent unfair dismissal case.
  
  
  * [1] [http://services.parliament.uk/bills/2012-13/enterpriseandregulatoryreform.html Parliament's webpage on the Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Bill]
  * [2] [http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/bills/cbill/2012-2013/0061/amend/pbc0611710m.htm Amendment sheet for consideration of the Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Bill on 17 Oct 2012]
  * [3] [http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/bills/lbill/2012-2013/0045/en/2013045en.htm Explanatory notes to the Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Bill dated 19 October 2012]
  * [4] [http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/bills/cbill/2012-2013/0061/cbill_2012-20130061_en_1.htm Version of the Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Bill as at the time of the vote]
  * [5] [http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/bills/cbill/2012-2013/0061/cbill_2012-20130061_en_2.htm#pt2-pb3-l1g12 Clause 12 of the Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Bill as at the time of the vote]
  
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