Member

However, it is important that businesses retain flexibility to carry out legitimate business practices involved in restructuring and outsourcing. Employers will still be able to restructure their businesses and, where necessary, replace employees with non-employees where there is a reduced business need for a particular type of work. For example, if an employer was moving to a seasonal business model, they would still be able to make employees redundant if necessary and engage non-employees to carry out the reduced amount of work. This will prevent unscrupulous employers undermining the protections in this clause by firing and replacing staff with non-employees to do substantially the same work. This amendment will ensure that the Bill is comprehensive in undressing unscrupulous “fire and rehire” and “rehire and replace” practices. I look forward to hearing noble Lords debate the amendments that they have table to this clause. I beg to move.