 In 1978 the Sachar Report recommended legislation for inclusion of workers on boards, however this has not yet been implemented.The Industrial Disputes Act 1947 section 3 created a right of participation in joint work councils to "provide measures for securing amity and good relations between the employer and workmen and, to that end to comment upon matters of their common interest or concern and endeavour to compose any material difference of opinion in respect of such matters".However, trade unions had not taken up these options on a large scale.