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NDM7045 United Kingdom Independence Party debate - Home Working

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Meeting: 08/05/2019 - Plenary - Fifth Senedd (Item 8)

United Kingdom Independence Party debate - Home Working

NDM7045 Gareth Bennett (South Wales Central)

To propose that the National Assembly for Wales:

1. Notes that National Work Wise Week takes place from Sunday 12 May to Saturday 18 May 2019.

2. Believes that home working provides more flexibility for family responsibilities, and also has wider benefits, such as less traffic and pollution, more accessible work for disabled people, and keeping premises costs down for businesses.

3. Calls on the Welsh Government to ensure that all public bodies in Wales have a duty to include home working in job design and recruitment.

4. Calls on the Welsh Government to develop a specific strategy for home working within the successor project to Superfast Cymru, to ensure that people who wish to work from home are not impeded by a lack of broadband access.

The following amendments were tabled:

Amendment 1 - Rebecca Evans (Gower)

In point 4, delete:

“to develop a specific strategy for home working within the successor project to Superfast Cymru,”

Amendment 2 - Darren Millar (Clwyd West)

Add as new point at end of motion:

Notes that Professor Sharon Clarke and Dr Lyn Holdsworth of Manchester Business School have stated that flexible workers, and particularly home workers, face ‘’the potential for occupational stress to be increased as a result of work intensification, conflicts with co-workers, and disrupted information flow’’ and acknowledges the need for these issues to be factored into future policy making.

Professor Sharon Clarke and Dr Lyn Holdsworth, Flexibility in the Workplace: Implications of flexible work arrangements for individuals, teams and organisations, 2017

 

Minutes:

The item started at 16.59

Voting on the motion and amendments under this item was deferred until Voting Time.

A vote was taken on the motion without amendment:

NDM7045 Gareth Bennett (South Wales Central)

To propose that the National Assembly for Wales:

1. Notes that National Work Wise Week takes place from Sunday 12 May to Saturday 18 May 2019.

2. Believes that home working provides more flexibility for family responsibilities, and also has wider benefits, such as less traffic and pollution, more accessible work for disabled people, and keeping premises costs down for businesses.

3. Calls on the Welsh Government to ensure that all public bodies in Wales have a duty to include home working in job design and recruitment.

4. Calls on the Welsh Government to develop a specific strategy for home working within the successor project to Superfast Cymru, to ensure that people who wish to work from home are not impeded by a lack of broadband access.

For

Abstain

Against

Total

4

0

50

54

The motion without amendment was not agreed.

The following amendments were tabled:

Amendment 1 - Rebecca Evans (Gower)

In point 4, delete:

“to develop a specific strategy for home working within the successor project to Superfast Cymru,”

A vote was taken on amendment 1:

For

Abstain

Against

Total

30

8

15

53

Amendment 1 was agreed.

Amendment 2 - Darren Millar (Clwyd West)

Add as new point at end of motion:

Notes that Professor Sharon Clarke and Dr Lyn Holdsworth of Manchester Business School have stated that flexible workers, and particularly home workers, face ‘’the potential for occupational stress to be increased as a result of work intensification, conflicts with co-workers, and disrupted information flow’’ and acknowledges the need for these issues to be factored into future policy making.

A vote was taken on amendment 2:

For

Abstain

Against

Total

45

1

8

54

Amendment 2 was agreed.

A vote was taken on the motion as amended:

NDM7045 Gareth Bennett (South Wales Central)

To propose that the National Assembly for Wales:

1. Notes that National Work Wise Week takes place from Sunday 12 May to Saturday 18 May 2019.

2. Believes that home working provides more flexibility for family responsibilities, and also has wider benefits, such as less traffic and pollution, more accessible work for disabled people, and keeping premises costs down for businesses.

3. Calls on the Welsh Government to ensure that all public bodies in Wales have a duty to include home working in job design and recruitment.

4. Calls on the Welsh Government to ensure that people who wish to work from home are not impeded by a lack of broadband access.

5. Notes that Professor Sharon Clarke and Dr Lyn Holdsworth of Manchester Business School have stated that flexible workers, and particularly home workers, face ‘’the potential for occupational stress to be increased as a result of work intensification, conflicts with co-workers, and disrupted information flow’’ and acknowledges the need for these issues to be factored into future policy making.

For

Abstain

Against

Total

43

10

1

54

The motion as amended was agreed.