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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For four years the agency workers directive has been blocked by various governments, including our own, and now it is destined to sit on a Brussels shelf for many more years to come,
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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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Everyone knows we work the longest hours in Europe,
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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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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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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 increase will see well over a million low-paid workers with more cash in their pockets, many of them women working part-time,
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Agency workers deserve a better deal...Today's announcement gives a green light to those unscrupulous employers who will continue to exploit agency workers.
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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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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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The whole of industry needs to start gearing up for 2012 immediately.
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Britain's boardrooms are secure in a pensions ivory tower,
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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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We are beginning to cut the UK's working hours, but there is still a long way to go before the UK gets anywhere near the European average.