Clause 18 - Entitlement to vote in ballot
Employment Relations Bill
9:45 am
Mr Gerry Sutcliffe (Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Employment Relations, Competition and Consumers), Department of Trade and Industry; Bradford South, Labour)
It is not intended to be woolly. It should be taken in context with the pattern of the Bill and the relations that exist. We are clearly defining what information the union must give to the employer about categories of workers, but we do not want the union to get into a situation in which it must predict what might happen.