[IER] Policing Bill will “extinguish” right to strike in public services

Mon Sep 20 17:12:53 BST 2021

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Policing Bill will “extinguish” right to strike in public services

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Lord John Hendy QC, IER Chair, warned the House of Lords on Tuesday (14 September 2021) that  <https://www.ier.org.uk/news/policing-bill-will-extinguish-right-to-strike-in-public-services/> the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill could "extinguish" the right to strike for public sector workers.

The Bill currently allows the Secretary of State to unilaterally define key phrases in the legislation, including "serious disruption to the life of the community".

Should police officers believe a protestor - or a group of protestors - to be guilty of such an offence, they would be permitted to take action.

Draft Regulations have been published defining the phrase very broadly in such a way as to encapsulate the lawful picketing of public services, Lord Hendy warned. Because the Regulations are secondary legislation, they will receive no meaningful debate in Parliament and cannot be amended through the democratic process.

"Surely this is an abuse of parliamentary democracy,” he told the Lords.

“Let us have the debate on the basis of meanings set out on the face of the Bill, not ones yet to be determined and then tucked away in secondary legislation, which avoids all but cursory parliamentary scrutiny and which we cannot amend. I ask the Minister to amend the Bill by including in it the definitions which she desires.” 

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Mayor of Newham, Rokhsana Fiaz OBE,explains how her local Council is fighting the tide of precarious work.

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Policing Bill will “extinguish” right to strike in public services

IER Chair, Lord John Hendy QC, has urged Ministers to define the conditions under which protests would be restricted.

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Raab ‘wants to scrap Human Rights Act’, govt sources claim

The new Justice Secretary has been vocal in his opposition to the Human Rights Act for over a decade.

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Every year, the Institute of Employment Rights brings together lawyers, academics and campaigners to update delegates on the cases and legislation that have had the most significant impact on workers’ rights over the past 12 months.

This year, the Coronavirus pandemic and building back better is inevitably the focus of the UK’s changing workplace, and our annual update reflects this.

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