May Day message from Unite the Union
Involve workers in decisions
Workers have proven to be critical in our fight against the COVID-19 pandemic, with May Day being the perfect day for us to highlight that workers will continue to be a crucial element towards ensuring the future Economic recovery of Gibraltar.
Employers must allow for workers, who will be the vanguard against any further COVID-19 spikes, to be more involved in the decision-making machinery across the public and private sector. Austerity is not the answer.
As we enter into a pivotal decade where changes may be inevitable the impact of such changes will be felt most proximately and profoundly by workers, an impact that must be mitigated at all costs, as failure to do so will without a doubt be detrimental to the economy, more so as we consider the prospect of transition being undertaken during a perfect storm of uncertainty brought about by Brexit and COVID-19.
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On January 27, 2021, the United Kingdom’s Department for Work and Pensions (“DWP”) issued the draft regulation, The Occupational Pension Schemes (Climate Change Governance and Reporting) Regulations 2021 (the “Regulation”). The Regulation has been submitted for approval by Parliament and, assuming it is approved, would take effect on October 1, 2021. While pension plans in the United States are currently limited by a recent labor regulation to taking non-pecuniary environmental factors into account as a “tie-breaker” after considering pecuniary factors (which may also include environmental factors to the extent they are expected to materially influence the investment performance of a plan investment), and cannot take nonpecuniary factors into account at all in default funds, UK pension schemes (i.e., pension plans, DB and DC) with more than £5 billion in assets (initially, with the threshold dropping to £1