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Islington Council has joined Tower Hamlets in the fight to stamp out blacklisting by introducing reforms preventing contractors carrying out the illegal practice.
The London borough council announced yesterday that firms which want council contracts must show they do not use blacklists, while those that have done so in the past must prove they have stopped.
Any contractor caught using a blacklist in the future would have their contracts terminated.
A past confrontation permanently shaped the methods the state will use to protect employers against any claims by their employees, writes MATT WRACK, but unions are readying to face the challenge
Building is the solution for much of our housing crisis – and will also help to address poverty, ill health, and even anti-social behaviour and alienation, writes KENNY MacASKILL
Making sure this Labour government delivers on decent jobs, strong workplace rights and well-funded public services will defeat the easy answers to real frustrations peddled by the far right, writes JOANNE THOMAS
Labour must not allow unelected members of the upper house to erode a single provision of the Employment Rights Bill, argues ANDY MCDONALD MP