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Dramatic fall in Employment Tribunal figures
13 March 2014
By Carolyn Jones
On 13th March 2014 , the Ministry of Justice published the latest ET statistics, showing the type and volume of Tribunal cases received, disposed of or outstanding for the third quarter of the financial year October to December 2013.
Royal Commission into Australian trade union governance.
10 March 2014
By Tim Wetherell, an employment lawyer at UNISON who has also worked for trade unions in Australia
On 10 February 2014 Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott announced the creation of a Royal Commission into the governance of trade unions. Controversy surrounds the decision primarily because of the extraordinary powers of a Royal Commission to gather evidence, the open-ended nature of the government’s terms of reference and its thinly veiled political benefits to a conservative government.
Privatisation and ‘Pop-Up Unions’: Occupy Sussex fights on.
14 February 2014)
By John Medhurst, Policy Officer, PCS
John Medhurst looks back on what we can learn from the activity of the first ‘pop-up’ union.
Teachers’ Pensions – A perspective from the NUT
14 February 2014
By Nick Kirby, Principal Officer – Pensions, NUT
Protecting pensions is a key part of the NUT’s continuing campaign to stand up for education.
CWU Agency Campaign – Securing a fair deal for agency workers
14 February 2014
By Billy Hayes, General Secretary CWU
A CWU delegation recently met with MEPS and European Commission officials in Brussels to highlight the widespread avoidance of fair treatment for agency workers in the UK, which we argue is incompatible with the EU Temporary Agency Workers Directive (TAWD).
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