Member

With Amendment 27, I believe the noble Lord, Lord Fox, wishes to set the period of short notice at 48 hours. This would mean that only workers whose shifts are cancelled, curtailed or moved less than 48 hours before they are due to occur would receive payments for short notice. The Government are committed to consulting with businesses, trade unions and all other stakeholders on the appropriate amount of time to be considered “short notice”. We will set in regulations the exact time period within which workers will be entitled to short-notice cancellation payments, but we have said in the Bill that it will not be more than seven days.