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Restoring trust in audit and corporate governance - TUC response
Our submission focuses on a proposal to change the word ‘employee’ to ‘workforce’ throughout the Companies Act, so that its requirements cover the whole workforce, rather than only directly-employed employees as at present; reform of directors’ duties to remove shareholder primacy and require directors to promote the long-term success of the company as their primary aim; reform of board composition to require that worker directors comprise one third of the board at companies with over 250 workers; and sets out the TUC’s response to a number of the consultation questions.
15 Jul 2021
Consultation response
How the shareholder-first business model is contributing to inequality
The UK’s largest companies could play an important role in reducing poverty and inequality, but the current business model is designed to maximise profit for shareholders. The TUC and The High Pay Centre are calling on our political leaders to take immediate steps to fix the broken economic model that puts shareholders first.
Janet Williamson - 13 Nov 2019
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ALL ABOARD - Making worker representation on company boards a reality
This report sets out the case for worker representation on boards, how it works in other European economies, and how it could work here.
02 Oct 2016
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Levelling up at work - fixing work to level up across the UK
This report argues that poor quality work is a key cause of broader inequality across the country. Unless we reduce the numbers of people in jobs that are in low-paid, insecure and offer no route to better quality work, little will change in the lived experience of a significant number and proportion of people across every part of the UK. We cannot level up the country without levelling up at work.
- 18 Oct 2021
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General Council Report 2021
This report contains details of the work undertaken by the General Council during the past year, 2020-2021.
- 06 Sep 2021
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Restoring trust in audit and corporate governance - TUC response
Our submission focuses on a proposal to change the word ‘employee’ to ‘workforce’ throughout the Companies Act, so that its requirements cover the whole workforce, rather than only directly-employed employees as at present; reform of directors’ duties to remove shareholder primacy and require directors to promote the long-term success of the company as their primary aim; reform of board composition to require that worker directors comprise one third of the board at companies with over 250 workers; and sets out the TUC’s response to a number of the consultation questions.
- 15 Jul 2021
Consultation response
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Aussie PM Ditches Anti-Union Laws
ACTU cautiously welcomes move to stop “the 20-year ritual of union-bashing”
Tony Burke - 28 May 2020
We must pull together and fight for working people
As we face the challenges of the 2020s, all parts of the labour and trade union movement must pull together. We need to listen to the working-class communities we exist to serve. We need to show humility, reflect – and then pick ourselves up and prepare for the battles ahead.
Frances O'Grady - 01 Jan 2020
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