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Torys Plan To Repeal All H&S Law
The Tory’s are at it again with policies which can only be seen as a blistering attack on the workforce of the UK, and a massive free for all of deregulating everything in sight.
According to this weekends Sunday Telegraph, some of the key elements are:
- The repeal of the Working Time regulations.
- The repeal of ALL data protection laws, which are an "expensive bureaucracy which fails to protect people's data".
- All health and safety regulations should either be reviewed or repealed.
- The entire 1974 Health and Safety at Work Act should be repealed.
- Care-home restrictions should be loosened to free up more places for the elderly.
This package has been dreamt up by John Redwood, a leading right wing government minister under Thatcher, and has been reported as being fully supported by David Cameron.
There is no doubt of course that the new law on corporate killing will also be in for the hatchet job as such a law would never have been brought in under a Tory government.
Sadly when it comes to any election campaign, the issue of health and safety legislation will not be given much time by the media and the threat to the UK workforce already suffering more than any other country in Europe from work related stress will become invisible in the argument regarding the economy, education and the NHS that will no doubt take the headlines.
It will be up to the thousands of USRs around the country to ensure that H&S legislation remains in the headlines in the next general election.
Source: Sunday Telegraph On-line
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