Schedule 2 - Statutory dispute resolution procedures
Employment Bill
5:15 pm
Mr Philip Hammond (Runnymede and Weybridge, Conservative)
I am anxious to probe the Minister on that point. Was he saying that there is a right to have the meeting arranged at a time that is convenient to the representative accompanying the person, or merely not impossible for him? If he is saying that one cannot arrange a meeting in the middle of the night in the pub down the road that is obviously perfectly sensible. But is he saying that if a person wishes to be accompanied by a specific representative, the meeting has to be arranged around the availability of that representative? If so, he is introducing additional complexity into these arrangements, which he sought to reject when we dealt with notices in writing.