Clause 36 - Removal of exemption for small employers
Employment Bill
6:15 pm
Mr George Osborne (Tatton, Conservative)
Will the Minister concede that the clause will require very small business to have much more complicated employment contracts? Indeed, when he was resisting a powerful argument made by the hon. Member for Wolverhampton, South-West about written statements at different stages during the schedule 2 procedure, he made the precise point that small businesses do not have access to the sort of clerical facilities that may be required to produce a more complex employment contract. I return to the example of the window cleaner. Is the Minister saying that a window cleaner employing a window cleaning assistant now needs a complicated employment contract that sets out all the details of schedule 2?