{"id":3739,"date":"2009-04-27T10:40:28","date_gmt":"2009-04-27T08:40:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2009\/04\/27\/worker-representation-is-essential\/"},"modified":"2009-04-27T10:40:28","modified_gmt":"2009-04-27T08:40:28","slug":"worker-representation-is-essential","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2009\/04\/27\/worker-representation-is-essential\/","title":{"rendered":"Worker representation is essential"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/business\/2009\/apr\/26\/pirc-corporate-governance-worker-directors\" target=\"_blank\">Guardian has reported<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Worker representatives should sit on company boards as part of a wide-ranging revamp of the way big companies are run in the wake of the economic meltdown and near-collapse of the world banking system, a shareholder activist group says .<\/p>\n<p>Alan MacDougall, head of Pirc, which advises pension funds responsible for assets worth \u00a31.5tn, says employees should be elected to company boards &quot;and act as a counterweight to entrenched interests&quot; in much the same way as workers are represented at the top of leading companies in Germany.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Absolutely essential right now.<\/p>\n<p>Let&rsquo;s start with the nationalised banks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the Guardian has reported: Worker representatives should sit on company boards as part of a wide-ranging revamp of the way big companies are run<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2009\/04\/27\/worker-representation-is-essential\/\"><em> Read the full article&#8230;<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[70],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-banking"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3739","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3739"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3739\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}