Clause 18
Employment Bill [Lords]
9:25 am
Michael Jabez Foster (Hastings and Rye, Labour)
Material hardship is such a low test. I cannot think of an example in which there would not be material hardship, material being a non-quantitative term, save that it exists. It is such a low test that, were it to be imposed, I cannot see a situation in which a union could ever expel. Will the hon. Gentleman give an example in which he thinks expulsion would arise?