02 November 2016
By Andrew Moretta, World of Work PhD student, The University of Liverpool
Andrew Moretta, a delegate at the Institute of Employment Rights’ Health and Safety Update 2016…Read more…
How much ‘Better’ can ‘Better Regulation’ get?
14 October 2016
Steve Tombs, Professor of Criminology, The Open University
This week, the Parliamentary Public Accounts Committee published an evaluation of the Better Regulation initiative. The…Read more…
Delivering rights in the modern world of work
14 October 2016
By Joy Johnson, UNITE Political Team
Become a Deliveroo rider and “pick up a ton of perks to sweeten the deal, like discounts with Apple and Vue Cinema on top of your self-employed…Read more…
The Tolpuddle Tree
20 September 2016
By Martin Smith, GMB National Organiser
The labour market faces massive changes in the next ten years – laying down a challenge to the trade union and labour movement to adapt to…Read more…
Now is the time to fight for a new deal for workers
15 September
By Tony Burke, Assistant General Secretary, UNITE
Below is a video of, and the full text for, Tony Burke’s speech in favour of Composite Motion 16 at TUC Congress, which supported the…Read more…
Britain’s Workers Feel Stressed And Insecure
13 September 2016
By Carolyn Jones, Director, Institute of Employment Rights
BRITAIN’S 31 million workers are among the most insecure, stressed and unhappiest in Europe.
No wonder! According to…Read more…
Byron Hamburgers: When employers fail to do right by migrant employees
16 August 2016
By Don Flynn, Director of the Migrants’ Rights Network (MRN)
What else could Byron’s have done? The social media world was awash with attempted defences of the hamburger chain after…Read more…
The neo-liberal reform of collective bargaining in Spain: its consequences for social dialogue
Miguel Martínez Lucio
10 August 2016
By Carlos J Fernández Rodríguez, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain; Rafael Ibáñez Rojo, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain; and Miguel Martínez Lucio,…Read more…
Public sector cuts, privatisation and employment rights
18 July 2016
By Bob Kelly
Bob, a delegate at the Institute of Employment Rights’ Public Sector Cuts, Privatisation and Employment Rights conference on 05 July 2016, reports back on the…Read more…
The Labour Act, another step in the flexibilisation of French Labour Law
14 July 2016
By Professor Sylvaine Laulom, Director of Institut d’études du travail de Lyon, the University Lumière Lyon 2
Finally, the long road towards the ‘El Khomri’ Law, named after the…Read more…
The impact of the crisis on collective bargaining in manufacturing in Portugal: between resilience and decentralisation
08 July 2016
By Isabel Távora, University of Manchester; and Pilar González, University of Porto
In the fifth article of our EU Comparative Series, academics from the University of Manchester and…Read more…
On the edge of a paradigm variation? Changing Joint Regulation and Labour Market Policy in Italy during the Crisis
08 July 2016
By Sabrina Colombo and Ida Regalia, Dipartimento di Scienze Sociali e Politiche, Università degli studi di Milano
In the fourth piece from our EU Comparative Series, Italian academics…Read more…
Women’s Labour and Trade Unionism – A Dangerous Combination?
By Rebecca Zahn and Nicole Busby
06 July 2016
Women have played a key role in the British trade union movement since its inception. After all, the first strike for equal pay was organised by…Read more…
A Manifesto For Today’s World Of Work
01 July 2016
By Carolyn Jones, Professor Keith Ewing and John Hendy QC
THE world of work has changed and with it the nature and role of the workforce. For Britain’s 31 million workers, many of the…Read more…
New strategy to tackle labour exploitation complicated by immigration and modern slavery focus
28 June 2016
By Dr Alex Balch, Senior Lecturer in Politics and International Relations, The University of Liverpool
As the dust settles after the EU referendum, the implications of Brexit for…Read more…
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23 June 2016
By Michelle Stanistreet, General Secretary of the NUJ
The Investigatory Powers Bill, which will be debated in the House of Lords on Monday 27 June, contains a…Read more…
A Letter From London To Our French Comrades
10 June 2016
By John Hendy QC and Professor Keith Ewing
FRENCH workers are now engaged in a historic struggle in defence of their rights. The struggle is international, as workers and trade unions…Read more…
Irish Unions help regain lost ground
10 June 2016
By Dr Eugene Hickland and Professor Tony Dundon
The Celtic tiger is dead … social partnership has collapsed … the Troika have been and gone … a new coalition government struggle to…Read more…
Troika-imposed neoliberalism undermines basic employment rights in Romania
23 May 2016
By Dr Aurora Trif, Lecturer in Human Resources Management, Dublin City University
In the second of our series of blogs detailing how the Troika has helped to spread the neoliberalist…Read more…
Human Rights vs. Bill of Rights: What’s in it for the workers?
23 May 2016
By Bob Kelly
With impeccable timing, the Institute of Employment Rights (IER) held a conference on the issue of the Human Rights Act, a day after it was briefly mentioned in the…Read more…