Employment Rights Bill - Report (3rd Day) – in the House of Lords at 6:23 pm on 21 July 2025.
Baroness Jones of Whitchurch:
Moved by Baroness Jones of Whitchurch
118: Clause 45, page 67, line 2, after “apply” insert “(but see subsection (8))”Member's explanatory statementThis Amendment is consequential on my amendment of clause 45 at page 67, line 10.
119: Clause 45, page 67, line 10, at end insert—“(8) Subsections (5) to (7)—(a) do not apply in relation to a term or condition of a social care worker’s employment if, and to the extent that, giving effect to the regulations would alter the term or condition to the social care worker’s detriment;(b) do not prevent the terms and conditions of a social care worker’s employment from including a term or condition that is more favourable to the social care worker than that which would otherwise have effect by virtue of those subsections.”Member's explanatory statementThis amendment provides that, where a Social Care Negotiating Body has been unable to reach an agreement about a matter and the appropriate authority makes regulations about the matter, the regulations cannot alter a person’s terms and conditions of employment to make the person worse off, and do not prevent an employer from offering more favourable terms and conditions than those provided for by the regulations.
Amendments 118 and 119 agreed.
Clause 46: Guidance and codes of practice
As a bill passes through Parliament, MPs and peers may suggest amendments - or changes - which they believe will improve the quality of the legislation.
Many hundreds of amendments are proposed by members to major bills as they pass through committee stage, report stage and third reading in both Houses of Parliament.
In the end only a handful of amendments will be incorporated into any bill.
The Speaker - or the chairman in the case of standing committees - has the power to select which amendments should be debated.
A parliamentary bill is divided into sections called clauses.
Printed in the margin next to each clause is a brief explanatory `side-note' giving details of what the effect of the clause will be.
During the committee stage of a bill, MPs examine these clauses in detail and may introduce new clauses of their own or table amendments to the existing clauses.
When a bill becomes an Act of Parliament, clauses become known as sections.
