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Employment Bill [HL]

I am not sure that we are not going from Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland to Through the Looking-Glass. What a lot of time that will waste. We have the tribunal, a letter has been sent or some step has been taken and the worker is deemed to consent to what we now have to call a ““qualified chairman alone””, but just when we have everyone together for the hearing and the determination, the worker pops up and says, ““No, no, my deemed consent is all wrong””. Then they have to get three members of the tribunal together to hear it, no doubt on a different date because employment tribunals have a lot of work. Sometimes it is difficult to find a date, as I am sure the noble Baroness, Lady Gardner of Parkes, would agree.