Motion detail – Congress motions

Motion

Motion title: Congress standing orders: Ordering of motions by CBC - criticism of GS

Motion text: Congress approves recommendation 2 of the democracy commission's final report, Congress standing orders: Ordering of motions by CBC – criticism of GS.

Recommendation 2 – Congress standing orders: Ordering of motions by CBC – criticism of GS

Standing order 49ii (motions not appropriate for debate), after …'because motions criticise individual employees', add 'who have no right to address Congress/Conference'

Purpose: To clarify in Congress standing orders that criticism of the general secretary (who has the right to address Congress) does not automatically make a motion not appropriate for debate.

The amended standing order would read:

49. […] Congress Business Committee shall determine its recommendations on:

ii which motions and amendments are not appropriate for debate, for example because they are out of order because they are in conflict with the objects of the union; or because motions criticise individual employees who have no right to address Congress/Conference,or on legal advice provided to the committee, that they are deemed to be defamatory and therefore may not be published.