Clause 1
Temporary and Agency Workers (Equal Treatment) Bill
9:45 am
Tony Lloyd (Manchester Central, Labour)
That is even better. We now discover that the official Opposition will support Government legislation to protect vulnerable workers, which is marvellous. This has social partnership written on it at almost every level. The CBI is on board with this, as are the trade unions and the Labour party. Even the Conservative party is on board with the principle of protecting agency workers, as would have been brought forward by the Bill, had my hon. Friend the Member for Ellesmere Port and Neston not been seeking to adjourn this sitting. Alas, the Liberal Democrats are not even in that position. The expression “appeasement to the trade unions”—