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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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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This missed opportunity is very disappointing...if ministers cannot agree among themselves, then they should give MPs a free vote.
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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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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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It is time for the government to be brave,
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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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These figures suggest that there can be few workplaces in the UK without a resident bully.
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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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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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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.