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Similarly, Amendments 5 and 124 together seek to take small and micro-businesses, as defined in the Small Business, Enterprise and Employment Act 2015 mentioned by the noble Baroness, Lady Noakes, out of the scope of Part 1 of the Bill. Doing so would result in employees of these businesses unnecessarily missing out on important protections against sexual harassment, as well as day-one rights against unfair dismissal. I will come to day-one rights in a moment. The noble Baroness’s amendments would also prevent employees of small business and micro-businesses accessing the new entitlement to bereavement leave that we are establishing.