At some point I'm going to collate the various follow-ups and updates on the blacklisting story into one post but in the meantime....
(New readers start here: Last year I wrote a story for The Guardian on blacklisting. Following this the Information Commissioner launched an investigation. This week that resulted in a vetting agency being shut down and dozens of construction companies named as clients. And Rob Evans and I at The Guardian got the scoop which was widely picked up. This is a collection of links to those follow ups. See here, here and here for my two other updates.)
I mentioned on the last post that the role of the HR sector in all this would be worth investigating. The initial indications are they don't really see it as a problem; it must all be someone else's fault. A bit more of an honest comment here.
Legal firms have been quick off the mark offering advice to companies so they don't come a cropper as The Consulting Association and its client did. I even got some spam at the weekend offering the services of a particular solictor if I needed any legal comment for an article I might be writing.
The FT reports the story here and says at the end that it ws unable to contact the Consulting Association. Funny that, it having gone out of business and all.
The Times took the story on somewhat on Saturday having got hold of more detail on the payments firms made to The Consulting Association.
And in the blogosphere Malcolm Redfellow is just not that surprised by it all
At yesterday's Scottish Labour Conference procedural difficulties meant it wasn't possible to put a motion forward on blacklisting but Ucatt general secretary Alan Ritchie did address delegates.
Tonight MP Michael Clapham is preparing an Early Day Motion on the issue which should be put down tomorrow.
I'm off to write a 500-word piece for Tribune now.
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