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RIGHTS FOR HOMEWORKERS

Early day motion 1123, tabled 5 March 2008 by John Battle (Labour). Signed by 119 members.

That this House believes that homeworkers deserve equal treatment with those employed in factories, offices or other places of work; is concerned that homeworkers are currently vulnerable to exploitation as their rights are unclear under existing English law; believes that the International Labour Organisation (ILO) Convention 177 on Homework provides a positive framework for delivering decent rights and protections to homeworkers; and calls upon the Government to take all necessary steps to make good its intention, stated in 1997, to ratify ILO Convention 177.

Signatures by party: Labour 86, Liberal Democrat 26, Independent 2, Social Democratic and Labour Party 2, DUP 1, Independent Labour 1, Scottish National Party 1.