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...
operating outcomes procedures research review
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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Everyone knows we work the longest hours in Europe,
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No longer should British workers like the Peugeot workers in Coventry find that they are the cheapest and easiest in Europe to get rid of when the going gets tough - and we send them a message of solidarity today.
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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 public wants a ban, the health arguments are overwhelming and all that is holding government back seems to be a reluctance to say no to business lobbying or risk being called nannies,
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We already have huge incentives to save for retirement, but they are not working,
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Britain's boardrooms are secure in a pensions ivory tower,
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Too many directors have closed decent final salary pensions for staff and replaced them with cheaper and riskier schemes
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We don't want to turn into a nation of clock watchers. Most people enjoy their jobs, and don't mind putting in extra effort when there's a rush or in an emergency, but that easily turns into the long hours culture of extra hours every week.
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The whole of industry needs to start gearing up for 2012 immediately.
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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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But there is evidence that some employers still put greater emphasis on paying dividends to shareholders - often other companies' pension schemes - rather than funding their own employees' pension scheme.
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But, as ever, with each minimum wage increase comes the predictable wave of protests from business saying that it cannot afford another rise.
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Millions are still putting in up to an extra day a week for free.