Clause 136 - Financial penalty for failure to pay sums ordered by employment tribunal etc

Part of Small Business, Enterprise and Employment Bill – in a Public Bill Committee at 3:30 pm on 4 November 2014.

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Photo of Sheila Gilmore Sheila Gilmore Labour, Edinburgh East 3:30, 4 November 2014

Some of the civil law remedies that people have for bad debts of all kinds have, indeed, always been available, but they are particularly difficult for lay people to use. Sometimes— particularly, perhaps, where the sum involved many not be very large—people choose not to enforce. That is highly regrettable, so there must be a clear way for people to get their compensation.