Public Services and Procurement (Workers' Rights) Bill 2017

Current Most recent stage: Second Stage

How far it has got

First Stage
Second Stage
Committee Stage
Report Stage
Fifth Stage
Enacted

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What the bill says it does

Bill entitled an Act to remove wages and working conditions of employees from being used as elements of competition among bidders for public contracts; to resist any downward pressure in wage rates and workers' rights; to safeguard the highest minimum standards established nationally by law, arbitration or collective bargaining and for that purpose to specify particular considerations which will apply to the selection of tenderers and to specify particular considerations which will apply to the awarding of contracts to economic operators and to provide that different considerations may apply in respect of procurements whose value are either above or below the EU threshold and to provide for related matters

This is the bill's official long title.