Meeting of the Parliament 12 March 2019
I find that an extraordinary intervention from a party whose leader just this weekend said that he now supports the devolution of employment law to the Scottish Parliament, which the Scottish National Party has long campaigned for. He now makes a virtue of the fact that his party is calling for that, although it stood squarely against it during the Smith commission process. We all have records that we can stand behind, but I hope that we can work on moving forward on a collective and inclusive basis. In that regard, I welcome the Labour Party’s movement on the devolution of employment law.
Those are some of the actions that we will take as we continue to promote our fair work agenda. We will work with business organisations, individual employers and workers, the fair work convention, our trade union partners and all parties in the Parliament to keep Scotland at the forefront of progressive policy thinking and action. We will continue to listen to, respond to and support organisations at various stages of their fair work journey, and we will work to build a fair work movement and to put fair work at the heart of the Scottish approach to growing the economy. That is the aim of our fair work action plan, which I commend to the Parliament and beyond.
I move,
That the Parliament welcomes the publication of the Fair Work Action Plan and endorses the actions that it commits the Scottish Government to; shares the vision for Scotland to be a fair work nation by 2025; continues to recognise the vital role that employers and trade unions have in creating fairer workplaces, and acknowledges the crucial role of fair work in delivering sustainable and inclusive growth.
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