30 Quotes by Brendan Barber

This missed opportunity is very disappointing...if ministers cannot agree among themselves, then they should give MPs a free vote.

For four years the agency workers directive has been blocked by various governments, including our own, and now it is destined to sit on a Brussels shelf for many more years to come,

It is time for the government to be brave,

Everyone knows we work the longest hours in Europe,

No longer should British workers like the Peugeot workers in Coventry find that they are the cheapest and easiest in Europe to get rid of when the going gets tough - and we send them a message of solidarity today.

They can combine market incentives with smart support for key strategic sectors, getting the best of both worlds. We should do the same.

The CBI should not pre-empt the outcomes of this review before in-depth research has been conducted on how the procedures are operating in practice.

Instead of the further help for the better-off that new incentives would provide, the government should phase in compulsory savings for employers and employees.

By accepting flexible work requests from their female employees but not from their male staff, employers are helping reinforce the gender pay gap, when instead they could be enabling young dads to play a more active role in the raising of their children.