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LATEST NEWS & EVENTS Unions slam govt for attack on employee rights  Unions have attacked proposals to reform laws affecting TUPE Regulation, discrimination claim payouts and collective redundancies. The proposals are centred on cutting compensation payments for discrimination in the workplace and reducing the current requirement by employers that consultations over collective redundancy are at least 90 days. In addition, the government will look at diluting the Transfer of Undertakings Protection of Employment Regulations (TUPE), which protects the pay and conditions of workers transferred between companies. TUC general-secretary Brendan Barber said he was "very worried" by the proposals. He noted unfair dismissal compensation claim advice needs to be "expert" and bringing a case is "not easy". "It is the employer equivalent of the urban myth that there are myriad vexatious claims," he added. Mr Barber also suggested that relaxing the rules on collective redundancies could lead to higher unemployment. Meanwhile, Unite general-secretary Len McCluskey argued that the Department of Business, Innovation and Skills was developing a "shameful reputation". "If the 90-day consultation period is swept away, giving workers and companies a small window in which they can save jobs, then this shameful reputation will be cemented," he added. Posted by Alex McLean 
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