19 October 2018
By John Hendy QC, Professor Keith Ewing and Carolyn Jones
This week has seen ‘gig’ workers and people on zero-hours contracts take a stand against low pay and insecure jobs, with…Read more…
Workers on boards and ‘inclusive ownership funds’: How should it be written into law?
12 October 2018
By Dr Ewan McGaughey, Senior Lecturer at the School of Law, King’s College, London, and research associate at the Centre for Business Research, University of Cambridge
Democratic…Read more…
Mencap v Tomlinson-Blake: a disaster for the sustainability of social care?
12 October 2018
By Dr Lydia Hayes, Reader in Law, Cardiff University
The decision of the Court of Appeal in Mencap v Tomlinson-Blake has overturned a decade of progressive decisions at the EAT and…Read more…
Shake it up: IER agenda for health and safety reform
06 July 2018
By Phil James, Middlesex University
Too many workers and their families continue to suffer from the failure of their employing organisations to provide safe and healthy working…Read more…
Two neoliberal infernos: Grenfell, and Piper Alpha 30 years on
06 July 2018
By David White, University of Liverpool
Thirty years ago today the Piper Alpha oil platform exploded and was engulfed in flames killing 167 people. Only 61 survived in in what remains…Read more…
Wage war: Delivering workplace justice through union collective bargaining
29 June 2018
By John Hendy QC, IER Chair
The sole justification for the policies of austerity inflicted on most of the peoples of the world has been that there is a structural deficit in the…Read more…
The Time Has Come for Sectoral Bargaining
By Larry Cohen, Chair of Our Revolution
It is now clear that enterprise-based organizing and bargaining in the U.S. has a dim future. U.S. workers’ collective bargaining coverage is back to early…Read more…
What are the barriers to improving union recognition in the workplace?
By Sarah Veale, Institute of Employment Rights
12 June 2018
Legislation giving workers the right to have their union recognised by their employer exists but is weak and little used.
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Regulating supply chains – reclaiming our rights
12 June 2018
By Aristea Koukidaki, The University of Manchester
The structuring of contemporary production methods, often complex and global in scope, creates an environment that is conducive to…Read more…
Blacklisted workers need more than a public inquiry – they need a change in the law
27 March 2018
By Alex Just, employment and trade union law expert
Friday’s admission by the Metropolitan Police that special branch officers colluded in the blacklisting of construction workers…Read more…
Fast food workers’ health, safety and welfare in drive-thru’s
By Janet Newsham, Hazards Campaign
The IER manifesto makes an important contribution in emphasising the importance of collective bargaining. In the Hazards Campaign we know that where workers are…Read more…
‘Good Work’ the government’s Response to the Taylor Review
12 February 2018
By John Hendy QC, IER Chair and Barrister at Old Square Chambers
It might be hard to imagine that the tedious, barren worthlessness of Matthew Taylor’s Report on ‘Good Work’ could…Read more…
Canada plus, plus, plus
13 December 2017
By Professor Keith Ewing and John Hendy QC
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David Davis has suggested that in place of the EU Treaties, the UK’s relations with the EU should be regulated by a deal which is…Read more…
Raiding Trade Union Offices – a New Low for Australia
27 October 2017
By Barry Camfield in Australia
The Australian Workers’ Union (AWU) is Australia’s oldest and largest blue-collar trade union, representing over 100,000 working men and women and…Read more…
Review: “In Place of Austerity – a programme for the people”
24 October 2017
Bill Greenshields, People’s Assembly National Steering Committee Member
Tracing the origins of austerity to the policies of government following the 2008 financial and economic…Read more…
Tories scrap pay cap for all the wrong reasons
10 October 2017
By Sarah Glenister, National Development Officer, Institute of Employment Rights
Health secretary Jeremy Hunt has confirmed that the NHS pay cap is to be scrapped, but asked whether…Read more…
Corporate Governance reforms offer greater transparency, but no real change
29 August 2017
Launching a consultation into Corporate Governance at the end of 2016, the government announced that workers needed a stronger voice to ensure businesses operated with regard to the…Read more…
It’s the Common Law wot won it
31 July 2017
By Michael Ford QC, Professor of Law University of Bristol and Counsel for the EHRC in the UNISON case
As described by one commentator, the Supreme Court judgment in R (UNISON) v Lord…Read more…
How we can build on Unison’s tribunal fees success
28 July 2017
Workers across the UK will be delighted with this week’s Supreme Court decision that employment tribunal fees are unlawful, leading to their immediate repeal and pressure on the…Read more…
Supreme Court Ruling On Tribunal Fees Shows Unions Are A Public Good
27 July 2017
By Gregor Gall, Professor of Industrial Relations, Bradford University
UNISON’s victory over the government at the Supreme Court on the issue of the introduction of fees for…Read more…