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Lord Katz (Lab)

Speaking in the House of Lords on 23 July 2025

Debate

Jobs Market

Contribution

My Lords, I have enjoyed debating with the noble Lord, Lord Hunt of Wirral, over too many days to recall, the merits of the Government’s Employment Rights Bill. To be clear, the plan to make work pay is a once-in-a-generation transformation of our labour market to make it fairer and more inclusive, and to deliver the day one rights the country needs. It will introduce ground-breaking reforms such as bereavement leave for those who suffer miscarriages, ensure fair pay for the social care sector, and ban the use of NDAs in cases of sexual discrimination and worse. Let us be clear: we are also repealing the previous Government’s failed trade union legislation, which delivered for this economy record levels of days lost to strikes in 2022 and 2023—a record they cannot be proud of. We are fixing their mess by introducing the Employment Rights Bill.

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