Clause 33 - Equality and human rights enactments
Equality Bill [Lords]
1:45 pm
Vera Baird (PPS (Rt Hon Charles Clarke, Secretary of State), Home Office; Redcar, Labour)
I beg to move amendment No. 51, in clause 33, page 21, line 13, at end insert—
‘(i)the Part-time Workers (Prevention of Less Favourable Treatment) Regulations 2000,
(j)the Employment Rights Act 1996, and
(k)the Maternity and Parental Leave Regulations 1999.’.
I can put this succinctly. Clause 33 defines equalities and human rights enactments for the purpose of part 1. Subsection (1) defines equality enactments. My amendment would add three extra sets of regulations to that definition. The Equal Opportunities Commission, on whose behalf I raise the issue, wants to probe why those enactments, which seem to be in the same family as those set out in the clause, are not included.