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Employment Bill [HL]

Briefly, my noble friend is right. The amendment is wider; it goes to human rights and dignity. The speech moving it went wider, to general human rights and so forth. This is a larger question than can be wholly related to the Bill. All I am asking—although that is probably of no consequence—is that the amendment should be rejected unless it is implemented by Parliament by some form of resolution. Basically, however, the major problem should be accepted by the Government. Apart from the document for ACAS, they are as perfectly capable of and justified in dealing with things as they were when that document was written. Things are now getting to the stage where the Government’s attention should be brought to bear on what is, and is not, legal in a government Bill.