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Department of Health: Whitley Arrangements for the Handling of Industrial Relations:...
Catalogue reference: JA 539
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JA 539
This series contains files regarding the Next Steps Agencies in the Department of Health and revised Whitley arrangements for the handling of industrial relations. (Whitley Council is a negotiation forum for employers, employees and their trade unions)
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- JA 539
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Title (The name of the record)
- Department of Health: Whitley Arrangements for the Handling of Industrial Relations: Registered Files
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1988-1995
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series contains files regarding the Next Steps Agencies in the Department of Health and revised Whitley arrangements for the handling of industrial relations. (Whitley Council is a negotiation forum for employers, employees and their trade unions)
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Former department reference (Former identifier given by the originating creator)
- RIR file series
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Legal status (A note as to whether the record being described is a Public Record or not)
- Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
- English
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Creator(s) (The creator of the record)
- Department of Health, 1988-1988
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 2 file(s)
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
- Open
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Immediate source of acquisition (When and where the record was acquired from)
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From 2017 Department of Health
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Subjects (Categories and themes found in our collection (our subject list is under development, and some records may have no subjects or fewer than expected))
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- Topics
- Labour
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Accruals (Indicates whether the archive expects to receive further records in future)
- Series is accruing.
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Selection and destruction information (Information about how the record was selected for archiving)
- Files containing background, copy and administrative papers, have not been selected.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C16341205/
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