<p>The Trade Union Act 2016</p>

Part of 1. 1. Questions to the First Minister – in the Senedd at 2:13 pm on 2 May 2017.

Alert me about debates like this

Photo of Carwyn Jones Carwyn Jones Labour 2:13, 2 May 2017

We, of course, have taken forward legislation in this Assembly to do just that in the areas that we believe are devolved. It is a bureaucratic imposition on public sector employers that they have to do this. It’s not something that the private sector is required to do. But also, it seems to indicate that, somehow, the current UK Government sees public sector workers as somehow not as good as those in the private sector. That’s the insinuation: that, somehow, they’re spending all their time in facility time and not actually doing any real work. That’s not the case at all. We know that huge amounts of work go into the public sector, from so many hundreds of thousands of people up and down the length and breadth of Wales, and that is why this legislation was so unnecessary.