IER PARLIAMENTARY LAUNCH – Pay review bodies: their past and their future
Come to our report launch, and hear from our expert speakers
Speakers
- Steve Gillan – POA General Secretary,
- Prof Lydia Hayes – IER Vice President,
- Fran Heathcote – PCS General Secretary,
- Daniel Kebede – NEU General Secretary (tbc),
- Gawain Little – GFTU General Secretary (tbc),
- Andrew Moretta – author of the report.
About the event
Against a backdrop of 44 years of political attacks on trade unions and collective bargaining, workers in some sectors were initially better off under Pay Review Body (PRB) structures. However, over time successive governments have exerted undue influence over the independence of PRBs, until their recommendations became no more than options for the government to either accept or dispense with as they saw fit. In our timely report, Dr Andrew Moretta takes us through the history of pay review bodies (PRBs); when they should be used under international law; when they shouldn’t be implemented, and the evolving history of how they have inadvertently become a political trojan horse for successive neo-liberal governments to degrade real-terms wages, and undermine collective bargaining in various sectors even further.
**Please ensure you arrive in sufficient time in order to clear parliament security before the event starts**
Location
Arrive via Cromwell Green Entrance (number 9 on below map)
Committee room 4a, Palace of Westminster, SW1A 0PW
