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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.
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.