Protecting Employee Rights and Access to Justice

As an amendment to motion S4M-13442 in the name of Roseanna Cunningham (Protecting Employee Rights and Access to Justice), leave out from “calls for" to end and insert “recognises that more than two million new private sector jobs were created over the course of the last UK Parliament and that the employment rate in Scotland has increased by 42,000 over the past year alone; attributes high employment rates across the UK and Scotland to the UK Government’s fiscal discipline and robust economic plan over the last five years; supports the conclusion of the all-party Smith Commission that employment law should remain reserved to the UK Parliament within a UK-wide framework; further supports the Smith Commission recommendation that, while the underlying reserved rights and duties of tribunals will continue to be reserved, the management and operation of reserved tribunals will be devolved; agrees that, while good relations between employers and employees are good for the workforce and good for the economy, the rights of trade unions require to be balanced with the rights of hardworking taxpayers; further agrees that businesses should pay the living wage when it is affordable for them to do so, and welcomes that the UK Government has legislated to ban exclusivity clauses in zero-hours contracts, ensuring that workers throughout the UK get a fairer deal and greater flexibility in choosing a work pattern suited to their individual needs.”