The Government is resisting new European law giving employees rights to holidays, said unions last week. John Monks, Trade Union Congress (TUC) general secretary, attacked the Government's “Victorian workhouse mentality” for being the only EU country resisting provision of a legal right to paid holiday leave. A directive providing workers with immediate rights to a minimum of three weeks' annual leave is due to come into force on 23 November 1996, but the UK Government is challenging its legal basis, said the TUC in its report Give Us A Break.
YSG probes advocacy 'problem'
AN OPEN meeting is being held this week in a bid to encourage more solicitor advocates to apply for higher court rights of audience. The open meeting at the Law Society’s council chamber on Friday is being organised by the Young Solicitors Group which says it is “very concerned” at the “extremely limited take-up” of […]
