Clause 7 - Postal votes for workers absent from ballot at workplace
Employment Relations Bill
3:00 pm
Mr Jonathan Djanogly (Huntingdon, Conservative)
Even if a workplace ballot is used, why should voters not have the right to demand a postal ballot if they so wish? The legislation provides that, if they are sick or so on, they can use a postal
ballot, but why should they not have the right to demand one in any event? The law has been changed on parliamentary or local government ballots: if someone wants a postal ballot, they can have one. Why should workers not have the same right?