Member

Amendments 216Y to 216YB, tabled by the noble Lord, Lord Lucas, seek to require the 10% membership test on application to be subject to a minimum of three workers, and for the power in the Bill to enable Ministers to bring forward secondary legislation to vary the 10% membership threshold to be restricted to no less than 5% membership of the bargaining unit, this again to be subject to a minimum of three workers. As I have said, and as our Plan to Make Work Pay makes clear, the current thresholds pose too high a hurdle in modern workplaces, which are increasingly fragmented. We want to be able to consider whether the 10% membership threshold on application should be reduced in future.