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Member

Speaking in the House of Lords on 19 May 2025

Debate

Employment Rights Bill

Contribution

Furthermore, the impact assessment failed to explore why the word “all”—as in “all reasonable steps”—was deliberately dropped during the parliamentary passage of the 2023 Act. This was done, I remember, precisely because it risked imposing onerous and unrealistic requirements on employers, yet that point has been completely overlooked in this assessment, which is a significant and worrying omission.

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