Draft Trade Union and Labour Relations (Consolidation) Act 1992 (Amendment) Order 2013 — Minimum Consultation and Notice Period for Large Scale Collective Redundancies — 26 Mar 2013 at 14:54

Stewart Jackson MP, Peterborough voted to reduce the minimum consultation and notice periods for large scale collective redundancies.

The majority of MPs voted to reduce, from 90 to 45 days, the minimum period of time which must elapse between the start of consultation and the first dismissal where an employer proposes to dismiss 100 or more employees as redundant within a period of 90 days or less.

The order approved by the majority of MPs also correspondingly reduced the length of period required between notifying the Secretary of State and the first dismissal taking effect to 45 days. The order also excluded the expiry of fixed term contracts from the provisions dealing with collective redundancies where the dismissal will take after the expiry of the specific term.

The motion approved by the majority of MPs was:

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Party Summary

Votes by party, red entries are votes against the majority for that party.

What is Tell? '+1 tell' means that in addition one member of that party was a teller for that division lobby.

What are Boths? An MP can vote both aye and no in the same division. The boths page explains this.

What is Turnout? This is measured against the total membership of the party at the time of the vote.

PartyMajority (Aye)Minority (No)BothTurnout
Alliance0 10100.0%
Con195 (+1 tell) 0064.3%
DUP0 3037.5%
Green0 10100.0%
Lab0 118 (+2 tell)046.5%
LDem29 (+1 tell) 0052.6%
SDLP0 1033.3%
SNP0 4066.7%
Total:224 128055.7%

Rebel Voters - sorted by party

MPs for which their vote in this division differed from the majority vote of their party. You can see all votes in this division, or every eligible MP who could have voted in this division

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