The Fair Work Agency (FWA), which is being launched on Tuesday, is a cornerstone of Labour’s Employment Rights Act. It will bring together several existing labour enforcement bodies and its responsibilities will include policing the minimum wage, holiday pay and modern slavery.
At a recent meeting with civil society groups, Matthew Taylor, its incoming chair, listed the five priorities the Department of Business and Trade had laid out for the FWA in its first year. These included “thought leadership” and “reducing regulatory burdens”.
Brand new bureaucracy, massive efficiency gain by combining several pre-extant. Then one of the major goals is “thought leadership”.
These morons actually believe all the TED talks shite, don’t they?
‘It’s contradictory to introduce a new regulator for the purpose of reducing regulatory burdens.’
I even agree with a statement in the Guardian!! If they want to reduce regulatory burdens, they should just abolish the regulations.
Thought leadership, eh? I suppose we should be thankful it’s not David Lammy.
Althougth it would be interesting if it was televised. You’d have to record it and play it back at 10x though because it would happen verry slooowllyyy….
David Lammy had a thought once. Green it was.
A line from Porridge? “I read a book once, Green it was”… 🙂
I suppose we can look forward to more cases like the Birmingham bin men and dinner ladies having equivalent jobs.
Maybe start with FWA chairman and FWA toilet cleaners?
Totally different jobs.
One cleans up shit, the other produces it.
I suppose it’s good to have them all in one place so they can all be abolished together.
…with an air strike. They seem to work.
Come friendly bombs and fall on pointless bureaucrats.
Bonfire of the Quangos.
Feh.
Yet more bollocks from Cameron…
Well, I’ve been a thought leader for decades. Haven’t got any followers yet. Which I think is the point. You can declare yourself a leader, but it’s the existence of followers that makes it so.
So what savings will be made by cutting staff and expenditure previously incurred by the “several existing labour enforcement bodies”?
I’m guessing a big fat zero. However Mr Taylor’s salary, index linked pension, private health scheme, private car and chauffeur etc along with those of his deputy chair, two assistants, a DEI compliance officer (plus assistant), at least 20 support staff and the establishment costs of a set of offices in SW1 (soon to be near empty as the comrades largely work their 4-day weeks from home) along with a generous travel and entertainment budget enabling first class flights and five star hotel accommodation while attending junkets in the nicer parts of the world will easily run into the tens of millions. Have I missed anything??
My only surprise is that this plushest of sinecures has been granted, for now at least, to a white male.
On the bright side his knighthood after a couple of years won’t actually cost the taxpayer anything.
Matthew Fucking Taylor. Says it all.
Yes…Head of Blair’s Number 10 Policy Unit, CEO of the NHS Confederation, son of BBC sociologist Laurie Taylor…
A FatWA against business.
Kick ’em while they’re down.
“Matthew Fucking Taylor”
I vaguely remember him: he even looks evil.
I remember him. He’s the cunt who set running the hare that people should want to pay more tax regardless of what effect it had, because that was the moral thing to do. About 25 years back this was. What a cunty wanker.
You don’t really think that the existing bureaucracies will be abolished, do you?
Of course not.
Their union will insist on their right to full pay for simply showing up and sitting at a desk. After a short while they will be allowed to “work” from home on full salary.