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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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The amendments add up to a series of pragmatic changes that should help to ensure the services directive does not undermine social Europe.
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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.
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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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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.