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 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 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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Britain's boardrooms are secure in a pensions ivory tower,
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The whole of industry needs to start gearing up for 2012 immediately.
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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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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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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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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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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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Unions do believe in proper regulation - but this initiative shows workplaces can do even better when managers and employees work together.