Clause 12 - Means of communicating with workers
Employment Relations Bill
4:00 pm
Mr Henry Bellingham (North West Norfolk, Conservative)
Clause 12 concerns the means of communicating with workers. I ask the Minister to refer to new paragraph 166A(2) of schedule A1, which states:
''The Secretary of State may by order provide that the employer must give to the CAC (in addition to the worker's home address) an address of a specified kind for the worker.''
That appears to give power to the Secretary of State to intervene in a particular dispute, because the word ''employer'' in this context presumably means a specific employer, rather than employers in general. It would not be drafted in that way if that were not the case.