PLANS from the UK Authorities to permit employers to exchange placing staff with company workers reveals a “hasty and hostile strategy to industrial relations”, Scotland’s Employment Minister has stated.
In a letter to the Minister for Small Enterprise Paul Scully, Richard Lochhead accused Westminster of “anti-trade unionism”, which the Scottish Authorities “totally deprecates”.
Below the present commerce union legal guidelines, employment companies are restricted from offering non permanent company staff to cowl for placing staff.
The UK Authorities is looking for to alter these guidelines so as to plug staffing gaps and mitigate the influence of business motion.
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“The Scottish Authorities believes that we should always respect staff throughout our economic system; we should always respect public sector staff; and we should always search to barter truthful resolutions to disputes, significantly at a time of hovering inflation that has been so exacerbated within the UK by the folly of Brexit,” Lochhead wrote.
He added: “Scotland, as you realize, has embraced the idea of truthful work – it’s disheartening to see our personal progressive exercise on this regard being put in danger by affiliation with the UK Authorities’s ill-thought-out, hasty and hostile strategy to industrial relations.
“It’s the long-standing place of the Scottish Authorities {that a} progressive strategy to industrial relations together with higher – not fewer – protections for staff is on the coronary heart of a fairer, extra profitable society.
“These modifications are a direct contradiction to our place, and as such, we are going to oppose them.
“That is one other instance of why we’d like full management over employment powers and levers – in order that the Scottish Parliament is ready to set the legislative framework for the labour market in twenty first century Scotland.”
A UK Authorities spokesperson stated: “The Authorities makes no apology for taking motion in order that important companies, equivalent to practice strains, are run as successfully as attainable, guaranteeing the British public don’t must pay the value for disproportionate strike motion.
“Permitting companies to provide expert company staff to plug staffing gaps doesn’t mandate employment companies to do that, reasonably this laws offers employers extra freedom to search out educated workers within the face of strike motion in the event that they select to.”
