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CONCILIATION service Acas was wrong to claim it was exempt from employment regulations when dealing with its own workers, a tribunal has ruled.
Civil service union PCS, which represents Acas staff, condemned the quango’s bosses yesterday for “using taxpayers’ money to try to avoid proper consultation with [their] own staff.”
Acas, headed by former TUC general secretary Sir Brendan Barber, offers arbitration between employers and trade unions in industrial disputes.
The unions are unhappy with the Employment Rights Act 2025 and with good reason. KEITH EWING and Lord JOHN HENDY KC take a close look at why the Bill promised more than it delivered
In part II of a serialisation of his new book, JOHN McINALLY explores how witch-hunting drives took hold in the Civil Service as the cold war emerged in the wake of WWII
It is only trade union power at work that will materially improve the lot of working people as a class but without sector-wide collective bargaining and a right to take sympathetic strike action, we are hamstrung in the fight to tilt back the balance of power, argues ADRIAN WEIR