Clause 4 - Determination of appropriate bargaining unit
Employment Relations Bill
9:30 am
Mr Henry Bellingham (North West Norfolk, Conservative)
I beg to move amendment No. 1, in
clause 4, page 4, line 5, leave out 'compatible with' and insert 'conducive to'.
''Appropriate bargaining unit'' in the title of the clause refers to the unit of employees within a firm or group of companies that forms the bargaining unit for the purposes of the legislation. Our reason for wishing to substitute the words ''conducive to'' for ''compatible with'' is simple. Compatibility with effective management is too passive a formulation and ''conducive to'' is more positive. If we consider the role of management in the business and its right to create wealth, for the purposes of what the Central Arbitration Committee must take into account, the words ''conducive to'' are stronger and clearer than the words ''compatible with''. That is the essence of the amendment.