Brendan Barber
Brendan Barber
Sir Brendan Paul Barberis chair of the Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration ServiceCouncil. He is a former general secretary of the United Kingdom's Trades Union Congress; a post he held from June 2003 until his retirement at the end of 2012. He was appointed Acas Chair in 2014, replacing Ed Sweeney, who had been in the post since 2007. He also serves on the Board of the Banking Standards Board, the Board of Transport for London, the Board of Britain Stronger...
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Everyone knows we work the longest hours in Europe,
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It is time for the government to be brave,
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They can combine market incentives with smart support for key strategic sectors, getting the best of both worlds. We should do the same.
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The reality is that Britain has one of the lowest rates of sick absence in Europe and sickness rates have been coming down for the last 10 years,
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Unions do believe in proper regulation - but this initiative shows workplaces can do even better when managers and employees work together.
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The reforms should recognize that employer prejudice is a key obstacle in the way of many claimants moving back to work.
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We're not saying that we should turn into a nation of clock-watchers. Most people do not mind putting in some extra time when there's a crisis or an unexpected rush. But too many workplaces have come to depend on very long hours. They get taken for granted and staff have to do even more if there is an unexpected rush,
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This missed opportunity is very disappointing...if ministers cannot agree among themselves, then they should give MPs a free vote.
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This is a major victory for the simple union principle that people at work should not have to breathe in toxins.
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If the government suggested that they were actually going to walk away from a deal, that would be a hugely important problem and then, of course, the possibility of disputes could come back on to the agenda.
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Instead of the further help for the better-off that new incentives would provide, the government should phase in compulsory savings for employers and employees.
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By accepting flexible work requests from their female employees but not from their male staff, employers are helping reinforce the gender pay gap, when instead they could be enabling young dads to play a more active role in the raising of their children.
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The CBI should not pre-empt the outcomes of this review before in-depth research has been conducted on how the procedures are operating in practice.
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The increase will see well over a million low-paid workers with more cash in their pockets, many of them women working part-time,