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…
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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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
14 July 2017
By Gregor Gall, Professor of Industrial Relations, University of Bradford
It was always likely to happen and now it has – the much awaited publication of The Taylor Review of Modern…Read more…
11 July 2017
By John Hendy QC, IER Chair
Changes to the law to protect the rights of those who work for a living are essential. It is doubtful if the changes proposed by the Taylor Review are…Read more…
11 July 2017
By Nicola Countouris, Professor of Law at University College London; and Professor Keith D. Ewing, President of the IER
‘A mountain had gone into labour and was groaning terribly….Read more…
06 July 2017
By Gregor Gall, Professor of Industrial Relations, The University of Bradford
Although it’s still early days, the evidence is that the Tory Trade Union Act 2016 is already backfiring…Read more…
30 June 2017
By Steve Tombs, Professor of Criminology, Open University
Since 2010, the Coalition, then the Tories, have both continued and significantly extended some of the ‘reforms’ initiated by…Read more…
23 June 2017
By Professor Steve Tombs, the Open University
“It’s going to come to the point where it’s going to affect the residents, the local population, in many ways we are at that point now,…Read more…
20 June 2017
By Gregor Gall, Professor of Industrial Relations, the University of Bradford
The main provisions of the Trade Union Act 2016, concerning new, tougher balloting thresholds, came into…Read more…
08 June 2017
As the electorate goes to the polls today, our Chair John Hendy QC and President Professor Keith Ewing, explain why trade union rights are an important factor for workers’…Read more…
07 June 2017
Sonia McKay, Professor of European Socio-Legal Studies at the Working Lives Research Institute, London Metropolitan University
Universality of rights ought to be a fundamental…Read more…
05 June 2017
By Alan Bogg, Professor of Labour Law, the University of Oxford
Workers’ rights and wage inequality have become a key political battleground this General Election following public…Read more…
01 June 2017
The Scottish Nationalist Party (SNP), Plaid Cymru, The Green Party and UKIP were all given a platform at last night’s BBC Debate, but they didn’t get the opportunity to share their…Read more…