Clause 32 - Consequential adjustment of time limits
Employment Bill
11:15 am
Mr Alan Johnson (Minister of State (Employment and the Regions), Department of Trade and Industry; Kingston upon Hull West and Hessle, Labour)
The short answer is best given in an example, such as a case in which an employee is seriously ill and would have to have started the procedure within the three-month limit. We are making provision through regulation for treating proceedings begun out of time as begun within time. I am sorry: we are talking about beginning proceedings out of time. That would apply when the employee concerned-in, say, a dismissal case-is seriously ill and unable to attend the hearings or respond to the employer's inquiries.