[IER] This is no April Fool: the new Certification Officer powers

[Ben Sellers]

News brief - 11/02/22                                                                           View this email in your browser 





 This is no April Fool: the new Certification Officer powers 


On 1 April the so-called “trade union regulator”, more formally known as the Certification Officer, will assume the powers given to her by the Employment Act 2016 to impose financial levies on trade unions.

Adrian Weir, Assistant Secretary of the Campaign for Trade Union Freedom, explains the detail.


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The Status of Workers Bill: Lord Hendy’s speech
Here we re-publish John Hendy’s speech, with which he introduced the second reading of the Bill in September 2021. It gives a very useful overview of the Bill and its potential impacts:  


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Make safe and healthy work a fundamental right
This International Workers’ Memorial Day, unions will be pressing the campaign to make health and safety at work a fundamental principle and right 


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IER and Covid-19
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