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  Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Bill - Clause 13 - Power to Set Limit on Unfair Dismissal Compensation
  
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  @ MP voted aye to empower the Secretary of State to set the limit on a compensatory award for unfair dismissal at a point between median annual earnings and three times median annual earnings.
  
  @ MP voted no against empowering the Secretary of State to set the limit on a compensatory award for unfair dismissal at a point between median annual earnings and three times median annual earnings.
  
  The majority of MPs voted to empower the Secretary of State to set the limit on a compensatory award for unfair dismissal at a point between median annual earnings and three times median annual earnings 
  
  MPs were considering the Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Bill[1]. The amendment rejected in this vote was:
  
  :Amendment 82, page 9, line 1, leave out clause 13.
  
  Clause 13[2] was titled ''Power by order to increase or decrease limit of compensatory award'' which gave the Secretary of State powers increase or decrease the limit on a compensatory award for unfair dismissal. A constraint on the power that the amount set must be between median annual earnings and three times median annual earnings.[3] 
  
  The limit at the time the Bill was being considered was Â£72,300, derived from a formula resulted in it rising faster than Retail Price Index inflation. For the year ending in April 2012 median gross annual earnings for full-time employees was Â£26,500[4]
  
  
  * [1] [http://services.parliament.uk/bills/2012-13/enterpriseandregulatoryreform.html Parliament's webpage on the Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Bill (now an Act)]
  * [2] [http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/bills/cbill/2012-2013/0061/cbill_2012-20130061_en_3.htm#pt2-pb3-l1g13 Clause 13 of the Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Bill as at the time of the vote]
  * [3] [http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/bills/cbill/2012-2013/0007/en/13007en.htm Explanatory notes to the Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Bill]
  * [4] [http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/rel/ashe/annual-survey-of-hours-and-earnings/2012-provisional-results/stb-ashe-statistical-bulletin-2012.html Office of National Statistics, Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings, 2012 Provisional Results]
  
  
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