Member

The amendments from the other place that I would like to discuss would fundamentally undermine the mission to make work pay, which this Government were elected to deliver. Our mission was to tip the scales in favour of workers and, more importantly, build a generation who are treated well at work from age 16 to retirement. When I consider my experience of working from 16 to 22, predominantly on zero-hours contracts in insecure roles, I see that was not the case for my generation. We should not lecture our young people, but show them that if they put in the graft, they can reap the rewards of their labour. We need to pull the baseline up to the level maintained by the many good employers in constituencies across the country—in Falkirk and beyond.