Clause 22 - Employment tribunals

Part of Employment Bill – in a Public Bill Committee at 11:15 am on 11 December 2001.

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Photo of Philip Hammond Philip Hammond Shadow Spokesperson (Trade and Industry) 11:15, 11 December 2001

I accept that, but does the Minister accept the concept of second-order discrimination? If he discriminates against one class of representative, and in 95 per cent. of cases it represents one side of the argument, that is de facto second-order discrimination. That is a well established principle in discrimination law.