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Employment Bill [HL]

We agree with the amendment in the name of the noble Lord, Lord Wedderburn. To take the point that the noble Lord, Lord Borrie, made, it is clearly appropriate with a Bill whose Long Title begins with making provision, "““about the procedure for the resolution of employment disputes””," to take an amendment that clearly improves the procedure regarding resolution of employment disputes, even though it goes a bit wider than the substance of the Bill. I have not had the benefit of looking at all the cases that the noble Lord, Lord Wedderburn, raised. The purport of his amendment is obviously that the law is in a mess—and I shall come on to that when I reach my Amendment No. 28 in the next group. The only answer that the Minister can give to the remarks made by his noble colleagues—indeed, his noble friends, on this occasion—is that the law is not in a mess. Otherwise, the amendment seems simple common sense and we should approve it.