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Employment Opportunities Bill

EDM number 1461A2 in 2008-09, proposed by Christopher Chope on 12/05/2009.
Categorised under the topic of Pay.

leave out from `welcomes' to end and add `the publication of the Employment Opportunities Bill which would inter alia give a right to work to asylum seekers whose applications for asylum are awaiting determination and which would also enable any employee who would otherwise qualify for entitlement to the national minimum wage to elect to opt out from such entitlement; notes that the Bill does not abolish the minimum wage; regrets that the right hon. Member for Kingston upon Hull East and his colleagues have failed to comprehend the contents of the Bill; and calls on them to bring to the attention of the public the contents of Clause 2(5) of the Bill which makes clear that nothing in the Bill shall require a person to take employment below the minimum wage and that no person shall suffer any detriment to their entitlement to national insurance benefits by reason of their unwillingness to take employment below the minimum wage.'.

This is a ammendment to 1461.

This motion has been signed by a total of 8 MPs.

MPDateConstituencyPartyType
Christopher Chope12/05/2009ChristchurchConservativeProposed
James Gray13/05/2009North WiltshireConservativeSeconded
Greg Knight13/05/2009East YorkshireConservativeSeconded
Philip Davies13/05/2009ShipleyConservativeSeconded
John Whittingdale13/05/2009Maldon and East ChelmsfordConservativeSeconded
Brian Binley13/05/2009Northampton SouthConservativeSeconded
Christopher Fraser13/05/2009South West NorfolkConservativeSigned
Ann Winterton13/05/2009CongletonConservativeSigned

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