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Employment Bill [HL]

I understand what my noble friend says, but we have already established that consent will include deemed consent. I suggest that our worries about that are added to our worries about the type of case where ““deemed to consent”” will operate. A worker who does not think that he has the national minimum wage award that he should have may be deemed to consent to a single-chairman hearing and that is the end of it. I do not suggest that single-chairman hearings always get it wrong, but I am suggesting, as I suggested that the very beginning of this afternoon's proceedings—