Member

Finally, the noble Baroness, Lady Carberry of Muswell Hill, asked us to consider the balance of power. She says that young workers are least likely to understand their rights or be able to exert them. She has not met any of the young people I know—in fact, Omar is sitting below Bar there, before he goes on his shift in hospitality. I can assure her that he is more than capable of asserting and understanding his rights. The danger is that we patronise and impose on those young workers, on the basis that they will not be able to cope. That is paternalism and underestimates the young. This would give rights to young workers and would not disrupt an industry on which many of them are dependent, which is exactly the kind of proportionality that I hope the Government would welcome.