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Employment Bill [HL]

My Lords, I became involved in exploring and researching this because I, too, found it quite confusing. I learnt that membership of a political party is a ground on which any organisation, except a trade union, can say, ““You cannot join us””. That was at the core of ASLEF’s case to the European Court of Human Rights: the ruling was, ““Sorry, unions will be treated just like every other association””. With this proposed legislation, we are trying to bring UK statute into line with that.