I’ve written before about the National Staff Dismissal Register (NSDR) in the Retail Sector and the blacklist published by The Consulting Association (TCA) in the construction industry. The former is a joint venture between Action Against Business Crime (a consortium formed between leading retailers and the Home Office), the latter a database compiled by a private company that then sold details to about 40 leading construction companies. News comes this week that the government is planning to introduce regulations to proscribe blacklists used by companies to identify Trade Union members and thus not employ them. The TCA blacklist appears to have identified trade union members as trouble – e.g “ex shop steward definite problems” and similar. The government thinks, rightly, that potential employees should not be discriminated against because of their Trade Union membership.