Post War Consensus
By the Second World War and the labour government of Clement Attlee, trade union membership was well established and collective agreements covered over 80 per cent of the workforce. With the British Empire is rapid dissolution and immigration from Commonwealth countries, combined with record levels of female workplace participation the character of Britain's workforce was changing fast. Though the common law was sometimes comparatively progressive, sometimes not, the first statutes to prohibit discrimination focused on gender and race emerged in the 1960s as the Civil Rights Act was passed in the United States. Discrimination in employment (as in consumer or public service access) was formally prohibited on grounds of race in 1965, gender in 1975, disability in 1995, sexual orientation and religion in 2003 and age in 2006. A complicated and inconsistent jamboree of Acts and statutory instruments was placed into a comprehensive code in the Equality Act 2010. Much discrimination law is now applicable throughout the European Union, to which the UK acceded in 1972. While the prominence of labour issues in the early European Treaties and case law was scant, it was not until the Social Chapter of the Maastricht Treaty was drafted that labour issues were formally incorporated into the EU's jurisprudence.
- Wages Councils Act 1945
- Trade Disputes and Trade Unions Act 1946 c. 52
- Wages Councils Act 1948 c. 7
- Employment and Training Act 1948, employment service
- Workmen's Compensation (Supplementation) Act 1951 c. 22
- Industrial and Provident Societies Act 1952 c. 17
- Reinstatement in Civil Employment Act 1950 c. 10
- Terms and Conditions of Employment Act 1959
- Wages Councils Act 1959
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