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Sunday 3 June 2012

Beecroft Report will remove rights from 3,113,000 workers

A TUC report analyses the potentially devastating impact of the recently published ConDem commissioned report on workers employed in companies with fewer than 10 staff. Brendan Barber TUC General Secretary said: 'already people have to wait two years before getting protection against unfair dismissal. The opponents of workplace decency, like Adrian Beecroft, are using the economic crisis as an excuse to try to smuggle through attacks on employee rights:' http://www.tuc.org.uk/equality/tuc-21079-f0.cfm