Clause 10
Equality Bill
12:15 pm
David Drew (Stroud, Labour)
I have been biting my tongue for some time now. Can the hon. Gentleman understand the problem that some of us will have with it? If someone is dismissed, for whatever reason, they might immediately come back to the organisation that employed them and allege religious discrimination. Is that not a real and ongoing problem? We need to be assured that that is not what lies behind his amendment. We might wish to have this debate later in consideration of the Bill, when it might be more appropriate. That is what is at the root of the problem: religious discrimination could be alleged, regardless of the original reason for the dismissal.