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Employers and unions have agreed to independent and binding arbitration to settle disputes over ‘two-tier’ workforces in local government.
Under present conditions, new employees can be hired under worse terms than those transferred from the public sector.
Earlier this year employers reacted angrily to government concessions that new workers hired in services that are contracted out should receive terms and conditions “no less favourable” than those who are transferred.
The CBI described the new deal as “workable for business” while Michael Wing, national secretary of Unison, called the agreement “the final piece in the jigsaw” in ending two-tier workforces.
