wages council

Including for example the scraping of the wages councils which comes up, I think, later this week doesn't it?

About 2.5m workers, mostly women, are covered by wages councils.

Yet still they persist on the abolition of the Wages Councils.

Basic rates set by the Wages Councils apply equally to women and men.

I expect her to preside over the abolition of wages councils and to be strong on industrial training.

He served for many years as a member on the National Wages Council (1981-1991, except 1989).

Britain's Wages Councils set minimum wages for about 2.5 million people.

The same attack would undoubtedly be made on basic rates when the Wages Councils are removed altogether.

Many small employers want to keep Wages Councils.

In 1985 it also reduced the number of Wages Councils affecting the pay of young workers.

Reducing the protection offered by wages councils.

Conference, there are two and a half million low paid workers in Britain, covered by Wages Councils.

October the first nineteen ninety three is almost certainly the date the Wages Councils will be abolished.

MPs went on to discuss wages councils.

The Conservatives are determined to abolish the Wages Council.

The reduction of wages council protection will affect women's earnings since 75 per cent of the labour force in the industries concerned are women.

It is quite clear getting rid of the Wages Councils would result in lower wages, poor jobs, and a move away from equal pay.

Congress, as the majority of low paid workers are women, the abolition of Wages Councils is direct discrimination.

Abolishing the Wages Councils would be a green light to sweatshops, a direct attack on the lowest paid.

Abolition of the Wages Council could seriously affect equality of pay between the sexes.

And Mr Major has confirmed that wages councils, which set basic pay rates for 2.5 million low paid workers, are to be abolished.

Wages councils, set up in the early 1900s, have no role to play in the 1990s, ministers argue.

Instead the Wages Act 1986 reformed the wages councils and abolished the power to create new ones.

We must support the introduction of a minimum wage and fight against the abolition of Wages Councils.

This legislation scraps the Wages Council.