Extract from Lords debate on Deregulation: Public Services and Health and Safety - July 13
Friday, 14 July 2017 07:36
Lord Patten (Con):...I think we are also just about to see the
beginning of some great debate on the balance between less
regulation meeting better conditions for the new growing flexible
national workforce after the publication of the excellent and
thought-provoking report by Matthew Taylor, once a No. 10 adviser
to Tony Blair, whom our Prime Minister, Theresa May, has had the
great good sense to appoint to conduct his review with its
ground-breaking, standard-setting seven principles for...Request free trial
(Con):...I think we
are also just about to see the beginning of some great debate on
the balance between less regulation meeting better conditions for
the new growing flexible national workforce after the publication
of the excellent and thought-provoking report by , once a No. 10 adviser to
, whom our Prime Minister,
, has had the great good sense to
appoint to conduct his review with its ground-breaking,
standard-setting seven principles for fair and decent work, which I
applaud—and not just in the private sector, or “Gig economy”, as the press has termed it.
also calls on public
bodies of all sorts delivering public services to design jobs
offering genuine flexibility, allowing some public sector workers
to choose hours that suit them, and public sector managers to meet
peaks and troughs in demand...
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