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Rita Margaret Donaghy, Baroness Donaghy CBE, FRSA (born 9 October 1944) is a British university administrator and trade unionist who was Chair of ACAS, the industrial conciliation service from 2000–07, before being named as a new Labour Life Peer in the 2010 Dissolution Honours List. She became Baroness Donaghy of Peckham in the London Borough of Southwark.
Donaghy worked at the Institute of Education, University of London, as an Assistant Registrar and later as Permanent Secretary to the Students' Union. She became active in the trade union NALGO, becoming a member of its National Executive by 1973 and serving as President for 1989/90. She was a member of the TUC general council from 1989—representing NALGO which merged to become UNISON in 1993—and was TUC President in 2000.
In October 2000 she left her trade union positions on being appointed as Chair of the industrial conciliation service ACAS, a post she held until 2007.[1] She served on the Committee on Standards in Public Life (the Nolan committee) from 2001 until 2007,[2] briefly as Chair after Sir Alistair Graham's three-year term ended.[3]
She was a member of the Low Pay Commission [4] and the Employment Tribunal Taskforce and chaired the TUC Disabilities Forum.[5] In 2009 Donaghy was invited to chair an enquiry into work-related deaths in the construction industry, whose report published in 2010 contained many recommendations for improving safety in the industry.[6]
Honours
She was awarded the OBE in 1998 and CBE in 2005, for services to industrial relations, and services to employment relations respectively.
Donaghy, a graduate of the University of Durham, has Honorary Doctorates from the Open University (2003), Keele University (2004) and the University of Greenwich (2005). In 2003 Donaghy was awarded a Fellowship of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development, followed in 2004 by Fellowship of the Royal Society of Arts (FRSA).
References
- ^ ACAS Annual Report 2007/08
- ^ Annual Report 2006
- ^ Downing Street press release
- ^ Low Pay Commission Welcomes Historic Introduction Of National Minimum Wage
- ^ Acas annual report 2004/05
- ^ Government Responds To Donaghy Report Into Construction Deaths, Department for Work And Pensions, Wednesday, 31 March 2010