Economy, Energy and Tourism Committee

Meeting date: Tuesday, June 29, 2010

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Protection of Workers (Scotland) Bill

Item 2 is the Protection of Workers (Scotland) Bill. I am afraid that the Parliamentary Bureau has decided not to reconsider the matter; or rather, it has reconsidered it and declined to see sense. This justice bill has therefore been referred to our committee and I am afraid that we will have to deal with it. The proposal is that we issue at this stage a call for written evidence on the bill’s general principles. We can consider after the summer recess which witnesses to call to give oral evidence. Is that agreed?

Members indicated agreement.

My view is that we should call the Justice Committee to give oral evidence and perhaps the Parliamentary Bureau, too, to explain why the bill is an economy bill.