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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.

Janet Williamson - 15 Jul 2021
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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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Do dividends pay our pensions?

This report examines who benefits from shareholder returns and the extent to which dividend payments from UK companies are a significant source of income for UK pension funds.

- 10 Jan 2022
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Time for a new plan

This spending review is a chance for government to learn the lessons of the pandemic and to plan for the future. Our submission sets out what the government needs to do.

- 24 Oct 2021
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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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