Member

What is even more striking is the contrast between how this Government treat trade unions and how they treat employers. In other parts of this Bill, particularly in Part 5, which we will debate in due course, the Secretary of State is given sweeping new powers to intervene on behalf of individual workers. The justification offered by the Government is that workers may be intimidated by their employers—that they may be reluctant or unable to enforce their rights—and therefore the state must step in.