Tory plan to change agency staff rules a ‘hasty and hostile approach’ to trade unions

Richard Lochead criticised the move by the UK Government

PLANS from the UK Government to allow employers to replace striking workers with agency staff shows a “hasty and hostile approach to industrial relations”, Scotland’s employment minister has said.

In a letter to minister for small business Paul Scully, Richard Lochhead accused Westminster of “anti-trade unionism”, which the Scottish Government “utterly deprecates”.