division_name: Employment Rights: Government Plans
motion: <p class="indent" pid="d82.2/2" pwmotiontext="yes">That this House believes that all existing employment rights and protections must be maintained, including the 48-hour working week, rest breaks at work and inclusion of overtime pay when calculating some holiday pay entitlements, and calls on the Government to set out to Parliament by the end of January 2021 a timetable to introduce legislation to end fire and re-hire tactics.</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="d82.4/7" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;among the worst idlers in the world&#8221;.</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="d82.4/10" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;Over the last three decades, the burden of employment regulation has swollen six times in size&#8221;,</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="d82.4/12" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;should do whatever we can to cut the burden of employment regulation.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="d84.4/3" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;a calculated attempt to take advantage of the pandemic to cut&#8230;jobs&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="d84.4/5" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;These tactics punish good employers, hit working people hard and harm our economy. After a decade of pay restraint&#8212;that&#8217;s the last thing working people need, and in the middle of a deep recession&#8212; it&#8217;s the last thing our economy needs.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="d84.4/9" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;the UK has one of the best employment rights records in the world&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="d84.4/11" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;provides stronger protections than the EU&#8221;.</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="d84.4/15" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;the best place in the world to work&#8221;.</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="d89.3/4" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;using threats of firing and rehiring is unacceptable as a negotiating tactic&#8221;.&#8212;[Official Report, <phrase class="date" code="2021-01-13">13 January</phrase> 2021; Vol. 687, c. 293.]</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="d89.3/7" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;Introduce legislation to end fire and re-hire&#8221;&#8212;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="d89.3/9" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;If you do that, you will have our full support&#8221;&#8212;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="d89.3/11" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;A mind that is conscious of its integrity scorns to say more than it means to perform.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="d89.3/18" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;we wanted to look at a whole range of issues relating to our EU membership and examine what we wanted to keep.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="d89.3/21" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;We are alarmed, if unsurprised, by reports of early attempts to downgrade workers&#8217; rights through amending the commitment to the EU Working Time Directive. We will vigorously oppose any attempt to dilute existing rights and are pleased that the Scottish Government, in line with its commitment to Fair Work, supports us in this.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="d95.0/4" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;The British are among the worst idlers in the world.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="d95.0/6" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;We work among the lowest hours, we retire early and our productivity is poor.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="d96.0/6" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;As we leave the European Union, we have a unique opportunity to enhance protections for the workforce and tailor them to best support UK workers.&#8221;&#8212;[Official Report, <phrase class="date" code="2021-10-29">29 October</phrase> 2019; Vol. 667, c. 205.]</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="d99.0/5" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;the worst idlers in the world&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="d102.0/2" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;you simply cannot hold a pistol to somebody&#8217;s head and say, &#8216;henceforth you are to be employed on wholly different terms&#8217;&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="d108.0/2" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;prefer a lie-in to hard work&#8221;,</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="d108.0/4" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;the worst idlers in the world&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="d108.0/6" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;work among the lowest hours&#8221;.</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="d120.0/8" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;I am no longer accepting the things I cannot change. I am changing the things I cannot accept.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="d122.1/9" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;we wanted to look at a whole range of issues relating to our EU membership and examine what we wanted to keep.&#8221;</p>