Sentences with phrase «trade union bill»

With the Trade Union Bill making radical changes to the UK's strike laws, we're helping employers understand how these reforms shift the legal and tactical dynamics around industrial action and the wider impact on their industrial relations strategies.

Acas identifies bullying, pay, the new Trade Union Bill, productivity, and the increased use of zero hour contracts as major issues for the coming year, in its Workplace Trends 2016 report.

The SNP and Labour have taken legal advice on ways to block the Trade Union Bill, which is being discussed at Westminster

Ms Cunningham said: «Last month's Scottish parliamentary debate on the Trade Union Bill confirmed that there is clear opposition to this draft legislation in Scotland.

Scottish Labour MSP Neil Findlay has lodged a motion calling for a change in parliamentary rules to let Holyrood oppose the Commons» Trade Union Bill.

First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has branded the Trade Union Bill an attack on workers which should be dropped.

Also on ESA, some clauses of the Trade Union Bill and some other things.

Jeremy Corbyn has already pledged to scrap vital anti-strike laws on day one by repealing the Conservatives Trade Union Bill.

The Trade Union Bill, which began its journey into law by being presented into the Commons on Wednesday, represents the biggest shake - up in the rules on industrial action in 30 years.

The Trade Union Bill would impose a minimum 50 % turnout for ballots on industrial action - and public sector strikes would need the backing of at least 40 % of those eligible to vote.

In response to the evidence session, the UK government said the Trade Union Bill was a «clearly reserved matter».

The Trade Union Bill is aimed solely at preventing workers from exercising their basic, hard fought human rights within the workplace.

A spokesman said: «The Trade Union Bill relates to employment rights, duties and industrial relations, all of which are clearly reserved matters for the UK government under the Scottish devolution settlement.»

Both the Scottish government and Scottish Labour have taken legal advice over the Trade Union Bill, which could put curbs on trade union powers and make it more difficult to call strikes.

But the Trade Union Bill would impose a minimum 50 % turnout - and public sector strikes would need the backing of at least 40 % of those eligible to vote.

SNP ministers have asked the Scottish Parliament to withhold consent for the Trade Union Bill applying to Scotland.

«Our party has always been a broad church, and despite my principled differences with Jeremy over many issues of defence, foreign policy and national security, I agreed to serve on his front bench because of the mandate he was given, his assurances that honesty and difference were welcomed, and due to the many areas we agreed wholeheartedly on such as fighting the vicious Tory trade union bill - which I was proud to lead our work on - cuts to tax credits and tackling climate change.

The move comes on top of the government's trade union bill which is expected to cut Labour's funding from the unions by as much as # 8m, as members will be forced to opt in to subscriptions rather than being automatically affiliated with the choice of opting out.

Liberty, the British Institute of Human Rights (BIHR) and Amnesty International UK yesterday published a joint statement condemning proposals in the Government's forthcoming Trade Union Bill: The government's plans to significantly restrict trade union rights — set out in the Trade Union Bill — represent a major attack on civil liberties in the UK.

The sum is # 2m more than initial estimates of what Labour would lose from the reforms brought in by the Conservatives under the trade union bill.

Union leaders have promised to fight «tooth and nail» against a controversial Trade Union Bill, set to be debated in parliament today.

Hardie would have recognised the Tories» (anti--RRB- trade union bill currently in parliament.

Ministers have defended the Trade Union Bill which would tighten rules on strike ballots in Britain.

The action came in the same week that the controversial trade union bill had its third reading in parliament.

The TUC Congress has voted to hold a co-ordinated day of national action against the Trade Union Bill.

We won significant concessions on the spiteful Trade Union Bill; we defeated their attempt to sneak through changes to Sunday Trading; we fought to save maintenance grants for poorer students; and we have strained every sinew to save our vital steel industry.

And he pledged to repeal the Trade Union Bill in 2020.

This the latest in a sustained government assault on democratic rights and freedoms following the Lobbying Act, Trade Union Bill, Prevent and much else.

Labour is facing a funding problems because of the changes to trade union political levy rules in the trade union bill which are expected cost the party a whopping # 6m a year.

«The Government's Trade Union Bill, if enacted, will place supply teachers and other agency workers in an invidious situation and is a clear attempt to set one group of workers against another.

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Angela Eagle, Labour's Shadow Business Secretary, said: «This is yet more evidence that the Tory Trade Union Bill is not only divisive and partisan, but potentially legally unsound.

The Welsh Liberal Democrats have joined other AMs in voting against the «undemocratic» Trade Union Bill in an Assembly vote today, in the hope that the Bill's provisions won't apply to Wales if eventually passed by Westminster.

Yvette Cooper will raise the prospect this week of a legal challenge to the trade union bill, which threatens Labour's funding and limits the right to strike.

Speaking in the House of Lords during the second reading of the trade union bill on Monday, Labour's Lord Mendelsohn, who is a shadow business minister, said the proposed legislation was a «clear attempt to defenestrate the Labour party's finances», describing it as «extraordinarily partisan, vindictive and selective».

The Trade Union Bill is getting its first reading in Parliament latter today.

EHRC member Lorna McGregor said: «As it stands, the Trade Union Bill is in danger of imposing potentially unlawful restrictions on everyone's basic human right to strike.

Under the Trade Union Bill - the Conservatives» biggest assault on the unions since the 1980s - a turnout of at least 50 % of members will be needed to authorise action.

«While there are quite reasonable steps [in the trade union bill] to increase transparency, the main thrust of the measures seems to be both partisan and disproportionate to the supposed problems that they are seeking to address,» wrote Kerslake, who was made a life peer in March.

David Cameron leads a government with a «worryingly authoritarian streak» that is seeking to undermine the Labour party's funding arrangements through the trade union bill, a former head of the civil service has said.

David Cameron is leading a government with a «worryingly authoritarian streak» that is seeking to undermine the Labour party's funding arrangements through the trade union bill, the former head of the civil service has said.

«The Trade Union Bill and all this other legislation have a chilling common theme, to restrict, stifle and silence opposition and attack our fundamental democratic rights and freedoms,» she said.

Mann suggested that the new members could help avert a funding crisis that would come if the government's trade union bill passes.

Bob Kerslake says measures including the trade union bill show government is «not comfortable with scrutiny and challenge»

The ruling by the Government watchdog piles fresh pressure on peers to block the measures in the controversial Trade Union Bill when it returns to the House of Lords on Monday afternoon.

The Trade Union Bill and all this other legislation have a chilling common theme, to restrict, stifle and silence opposition and attack our fundamental democratic rights and freedoms

Labour peers have tabled an amendment to the trade union bill that would establish a Lords select committee to examine the proposals to change party funding.

The Lords are currently debating the trade union bill that has been designed quite clearly to damage the organisational capabilities and finances of the labour movement in general and the Labour party in particular.

Speaking at an NASUWT fringe meeting at the Labour Party Conference in Brighton, NASUWT's Deputy General Secretary Dr Patrick Roach condemned the Government's attempts to undermine the Human Rights Act and curb the ability of trade unions to advocate and represent the interests of their members through the Trade Union Bill.

In July 2015, a Trade Union Bill was presented, which included a clause requiring trade unions with a political fund to operate a «contracting - in» system rather than a «contracting - out» system.