Nov 042012
 

Heres some information around CCTV

Information about employers use of CCTV and covert surveillance you should read section 3 in theICO‘s Employment Practices Code:

http://www.ico.gov.uk/upload/documents/library/data_protection/detailed_specialist_guides/employment_practices_code.pdf

and the same section in the supplementary guidance

http://www.ico.gov.uk/upload/documents/library/data_protection/detailed_specialist_guides/employment_practice_code_-_supplementary_guidance.pdf

 Posted by on November 4, 2012
Jun 132012
 

Last week, Byron Taylor delivered our 6,000-strong letter to Vince Cable at the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills. The timing couldn’t have been more crucial.

Last year, David Cameron asked a venture capitalist called Adrian Beecroft, who has donated more than £500,000 to the Conservative Party, to write a report outlining his suggested changes to our rights at work.

After months of delay, Labour MPs forced the Government to finally publish his report on Monday night. That report fulfilled all our worst fears – if Beecroft gets his way, nobody will be safe in their job, as employers will be able to fire at will.

This is an attack on every single one of us. Will you email your MP now?

http://www.unionstogether.org.uk/underattack

Mr Beecroft made his intentions crystal clear in the draft of the report that was leaked at the weekend. He wrote:

“the downside of the proposal is that some people would be dismissed simply because their employer doesn’t like them. While that is sad I believe it is a price worth paying…..”

Unsurprisingly, these words didn’t make it into the published version of the report!

But the proposal to take away job security from every single working person in Britain by introducing “no fault dismissal” is only the beginning. Without offering a shred of evidence, the Beecroft Report claims that ripping up rights at work across the board will create jobs and help end the recession.

There is a real risk that the Government will action Beecroft’s plans to scrap our rights. Their austerity programme is making the economy worse, not better, and has pushed us into a double dip recession.

Up until now, Vince Cable’s Business Department has led the way on watering down rights at work, claiming that doing so will create growth – his department is still consulting on whether or not to implement no fault dismissal. There is a real risk that substantial parts of the Beecroft report could become law.

Email your MP now to ask them to oppose this attack on our rights at work.

http://www.unionstogether.org.uk/underattack

Ordinary people did not cause this recession – we should not be paying the price by having our rights at work ripped up.

 

 Posted by on June 13, 2012
Feb 222012
 

Meet Angela Greenhalgh

 

Name:  Angela Greenhalgh

Branch Position:   Branch Secretary and Residential Energy National Rep

Where you’re based:  Hattersley, British Gas

Why you became a Union Rep:  I became a Union Rep so I could voice the concerns of members and act on their behalf – I’d been “unofficially” elected as spokesperson at the majority of Employee Forums as I was in the words of our management “gobby”, so I thought it best to become a UNISON Rep. I really enjoy my roles and work hard for our membership.

Something interesting that people would not guess about you:  I have 3 grown up children (nearly 29, 26 & 23) all of whom were born extremely premature and I’m very grateful to the staff at Tameside Hospital Special Care Baby Unit (SCBU) for providing excellent patient care and providing us with invaluable support.

Little bit about you:
I am going to finish my employment law degree this next year if it kills me.  I am proud to be on the NEC in the Female Energy seat   I live in Gee Cross, Hyde with my husband Michael and my youngest son, both our other 2 children have moved out.  I love drinking red wine but my first love by way of alcoholic drinks is Jack Daniels and diet Pepsi – it seems to like me too as I can drink this until the cows come home with no ill effects or hangover.