Strikes (Minimum Service Levels) Bill — Clause 4 — Extent — 22 May 2023 at 20:00

“the individual freedoms, dignity and livelihoods of workers.”-[Official Report, House of Lords, 26 April 2023; Vol. 829, c. 1242.]

“Now more than ever, Scotland needs the devolution of employment law to outlaw, once and for all, the use of zero-hours contracts, giving workers security, certainty and workplace rights from day one of their employment.”

“The UK already has among the most draconian restrictions on the right to strike in Europe. The UK government’s plans would push it even further away from normal, democratic practice across Europe.”

“We find it hard to see how it is compliant with Article 11 ECHR to expose any participant in industrial action to the risk of dismissal simply because a trade union fails to take unspecified ‘reasonable steps’… In our view, the Government has not provided sufficient justification for this consequence or explained why the minimum service scheme could not be effective without it.”

“We can’t come into office, picking through all the conservative legislation and repealing it… It would take up so much parliamentary time. We need a positive agenda.”

“sanctions are not directed at individual workers.”

“an outlier in Europe and would constitute a gross infringement of an employee’s individual freedom.”-[Official Report, House of Lords, 26 April 2023; Vol. 829, c. 1234.]

“hard to see how it is compliant with Article 11 ECHR to expose any participant in industrial action to the risk of dismissal simply because a trade union fails to take unspecified ‘reasonable steps’ required in respect of those subject to a work notice.”

“I would not support anything that would take away from workers”

“the UK Government’s attempt to limit workers’ rights and its attempt to justify it with comparisons to international norms.”

“The UK already has among the most draconian restrictions on the right to strike in Europe, and the UK government’s plans would push it even further away from normal, democratic practice across Europe.”

“A minimum service may be set up in the event of a strike, the extent and duration of which might be such as to result in an acute national crisis endangering the normal living conditions of the population.”

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