division_name: Strikes (Minimum Service Levels) Bill &#8212; Clause 4 - Extent
motion: <p class="indent" pid="c82.1/6" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;the individual freedoms, dignity and livelihoods of workers.&#8221;&#8212;[Official Report, House of Lords, <phrase class="date" code="">26 April 2023</phrase>; Vol. 829, c. 1242.]</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="c84.1/4" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;Now more than ever, Scotland needs the devolution of employment law to outlaw, once and for all, the use of zero-hours contracts, giving workers security, certainty and workplace rights from day one of their employment.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="c84.1/12" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;The UK already has among the most draconian restrictions on the right to strike in Europe. The UK government&#8217;s plans would push it even further away from normal, democratic practice across Europe.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="c84.1/17" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;We find it hard to see how it is compliant with Article 11 ECHR to expose any participant in industrial action to the risk of dismissal simply because a trade union fails to take unspecified &#8216;reasonable steps&#8217;&#8230; In our view, the Government has not provided sufficient justification for this consequence or explained why the minimum service scheme could not be effective without it.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="c88.0/2" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;We can&#8217;t come into office, picking through all the conservative legislation and repealing it&#8230; It would take up so much parliamentary time. We need a positive agenda.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="c92.3/4" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;sanctions are not directed at individual workers.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="c92.3/8" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;an outlier in Europe and would constitute a gross infringement of an employee&#8217;s individual freedom.&#8221;&#8212;[Official Report, House of Lords, <phrase class="date" code="">26 April 2023</phrase>; Vol. 829, c. 1234.]</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="c92.3/13" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;hard to see how it is compliant with Article 11 ECHR to expose any participant in industrial action to the risk of dismissal simply because a trade union fails to take unspecified &#8216;reasonable steps&#8217; required in respect of those subject to a work notice.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="c92.3/18" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;I would not support anything that would take away from workers&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="c95.0/3" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;the UK Government&#8217;s attempt to limit workers&#8217; rights and its attempt to justify it with comparisons to international norms.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="c98.0/5" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;The UK already has among the most draconian restrictions on the right to strike in Europe, and the UK government&#8217;s plans would push it even further away from normal, democratic practice across Europe.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="c102.2/5" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;A minimum service may be set up in the event of a strike, the extent and duration of which might be such as to result in an acute national crisis endangering the normal living conditions of the population.&#8221;</p>