Civil Service: Equality
The question
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will make an estimate of the potential cost to the Civil Service of proposed changes to (a) statutory rights for trade union equality representatives and (b) facility time and associated office facilities via the Employment Rights Bill.
Answered by Georgia Gould
The Employment Rights Bill is a significant step towards ensuring workplace rights are fit for a modern economy and aims to strengthen the work of unions and union representatives in the workplace and support growth.
The Government published impact assessments alongside the Bill which covered the expected benefits and costs to employers of the new measures and has committed to carrying out a post implementation review in five years of the repeal of the 2016 Trade Union Act.
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