Member

Outside the Treasury, in the real world, this Bill will introduce a special unfairness to a particular type of hard-working employee who is juggling several jobs and make it nearly impossible for their employers to administer it. Millions of people work in tourism and hospitality, at visitor attractions and at sporting events. In many cases, it is a second job, but pubs and restaurants certainly have variable and seasonal hours. I am thinking of the hourly paid, including shift workers and those working term-time: those people who take up the slack in a modern economy and make it work. We need them, and I must admit that I thought the Labour Party existed to champion these people.