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1982 Mar 24 - 1983 Jan 20
Prime Ministerial Private Office files

PREM19/1061
Industrial policy (Industrial relations law) (Part 9)

Document type: File list item
Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2013 Aug 1
Classification: Secret
Page count: 245
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82 Mar 31 We Major Industrial policy: Tebbit minute to MT ("Dismissal in a Strike") ["I agree that we should give employers more freedom to dismiss employees taking industrial action"] [declassified 2013]
82 Mar 31 We Major Industrial policy: Tebbit minute to MT ("Lay-Off") [paper on lay-off without pay in the event of industrial action] [declassified 2013]
82 Apr 1 Th Major Industrial policy: Vereker minute to Scholar ("Employment Bill: Clause 7") [Tebbit's proposals on lay-offs in the event of industrial action] [declassified 2013]
82 Apr 1 Th Major Industrial policy: Vereker minute to Scholar ("Lay-Off") [Tebbit's proposals on lay-offs] [declassified 2013]
82 Apr 7 We Major Industrial policy: No.10 letter to Department of Employment ("Lay Off") [MT's response to Tebbit's proposals on lay-offs] [declassified 2013]
82 Apr 20 Tu Major Industrial policy: Vereker minute to Scholar ("Employment Bill: Clause 7") [proposals on re-engagement of former employees following lay-offs due to strike action] [declassified 2013]
82 Apr 20 Tu Major Industrial policy: Department of Employment letter to No.10 (proposals on re-engagement of former employees following lay-offs due to strike action) [declassified 2013]
82 Jun 10 Th Major Industrial policy: TUC General Secretary Len Murray letter to MT ("Employment Bill 1982") [TUC opposes the Bill: "[it will] cause serious damage to relations between workers and their employers and harm to British industry"] [declassified 2013]
82 Jun 28 Mo Major Industrial policy: MT letter to TUC General Secretary Len Murray (Employment Bill 1982) ["I am sorry that the TUC feel it necessary to continue their campaign against the Employment Bill"] [declassified 2013]
82 Jul 6 Tu Major Industrial policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Tebbit) ["Employment Bill"] [declassified 2013]
82 Aug 2 Mo Major Industrial policy: No.10 letter to Department of Employment (Lord Rochester's Amendment to the Employment Bill) [MT comments on employee involvement] [declassified 2013]
82 Sep 20 Mo Major Industrial policy: Department of Employment letter to No.10 ("Employment Bill: Employee Involvement") [Lord Rochester's amendment] [declassified 2013]
82 Sep 21 Tu Major Industrial policy: Mount minute to Scholar (Lord Rochester's amendment to the Employment Bill: employee involvement) [declassified 2013]
82 Sep 28 Tu Major Industrial policy: Walters minute to MT ("Wages, Falling Inflation and Employment Protection") [need to ensure that firms and Government Agencies are able to cut wages] [declassified 2013]
82 Sep 30 Th Major Industrial policy: No.10 letter to Department of Employment (ability of firms to cut wages) [MT requests Tebbit's views] [declassified 2013]
82 Oct 1 Fr Major Industrial policy: Department of Employment letter to No.10 ("Employment Bill: Employee Involvement") [declassified 2013]
82 Oct 4 Mo Major Industrial policy: Vereker minute to Scholar ("Industrial Relations Legislation") ["it would be a mistake to legislate at this stage for compulsory strike ballots"] [declassified 2013]
82 Oct 12 Tu Major Industrial policy: Gregson briefing for MT ("Industrial Relations Legislation (E(82)64)") [declassified 2013]
82 Oct 20 We Major Industrial policy: Tebbit minute to MT ("Employment Bill") [plans for trade unions legislation] [declassified 2013]
82 Oct 21 Th Major Industrial policy: Mount minute to MT ("Trade Union Reform") [suggestions on future trade union legislation: "there is danger of complacency and timidity creeping into our approach to the reform of trade union law"] [declassified 2013]