Employment Rights Bill: Motion to disagree with Lords Amendment 60

MPs voted 318 to 170 on 15 September 2025 to reject Lords Amendment 60 to the Employment Rights Bill, supporting the government's motion to disagree with the Lords' change and restore the Bill to the form the Commons had passed. The amendment was considered alongside a large group of Lords changes at ping-pong stage, the process by which the two Houses exchange amendments until they reach agreement. The Employment Rights Bill makes sweeping changes to employment law, including guaranteed-hours contracts for zero and low-hours workers, day-one unfair dismissal rights, new shift-notice and cancellation-pay entitlements, and significant trade union reforms. Rejecting Amendment 60 advances the government's intention to proceed with its own approach to these provisions rather than accept the modifications the Lords introduced. The specific content of Amendment 60 is not set out individually in the available debate record, which groups it with Amendments 61 and 62 in a single motion to disagree, so its precise effect cannot be stated with certainty from the material provided. Labour and Labour and Co-operative MPs voted unanimously for the motion, providing all 310 votes on the aye side together with three independents, three Greens, and two Your Party MPs. All 83 Conservatives, all 66 Liberal Democrats, all eight SNP members, six Reform UK MPs, and two Democratic Unionists who voted recorded noes, with one independent also voting no. There were no Labour rebels. The vote illustrates the breadth of opposition to the Bill beyond the Conservatives, with the Liberal Democrats and SNP joining the government's opponents, though the government's majority was large enough to be comfortable.