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Member
Speaking in the House of Lords on 29 April 2025
Debate
Employment Rights BillContribution
I will start with complexity. Business will have to track who should be offered extra hours—as currently drafted, pretty much every day of the year—calculate correct entitlements and then determine compliant contract offers without clear guidance as to what a compliant offer will actually be. For the company I work for, I estimate that it would be at least a year of systems work and several million pounds of cost just to develop the system needed to manage this process. Small businesses will find this process overwhelming.
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