date:Dec 24, 2012
Defras plans to scrap the Agricultural Wages Board (AWB) a panel setting pay abolished in all other sectors almost 20 years ago were today included in a bill going through Parliament.
It will mean that the law governing agricultural wages will be harmonised with the rest of the economy. This will end an anomaly requiring farmers to follow outdated and bureaucratic rules dating back to the beginning of the 20th Century.
Mr Heath said: Scrapping these outdated and bureaucratic rules will sig