5 June 2015
By Professor Keith Ewing and John Hendy QC
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The Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) is the secret trade deal currently being negotiated between the EU and the USA….Read more…
Employment Law Update LIVERPOOL
Start: 02/12/2015 09:30
Timezone: Europe/London
Start: 02/12/2015 09:30
Timezone: Europe/London
Wednesday 2 December 2015.
A one-day conference
The Adelphi Hotel,…Read more…
Trade Union Bill
27 May 2015
By Carolyn Jones, Director Institute of Employment Right
The Trade Union Bill announced in the Queen’s speech holds few surprises. We knew it was coming. The Tories and their big…Read more…
Trade Unions and the General Election 2015
13 May 2015
By Professor Keith Ewing
Shortly after the general election in 2010, I wrote in these columns that Cameron would win the 2015 general election (Morning Star, 18 June 2010). The…Read more…
UCU victory against university employer
11th May 2015
By Michael MacNeil
In higher education the bosses often consider themselves to sit at the more enlightened and progressive end of the employers’ spectrum. They do, however,…Read more…
Anti-Social Europe: USDAW v Wilson in the ECJ
01 May 2015
By Michael Ford QC.
In the 1970s AZCO, a multinational with employees in various European countries, decided it would make about 5000 workers redundant. It took care to work out in…Read more…
Collective Bargaining in Ireland: lessons for Westminster?
29 April 2015
By Michael Doherty, Professor of Law and Head of the Department of Law at Maynooth University, Ireland
The voluntarist system of employment relations that exists in Ireland is, of…Read more…
Workplace Issues: taking up the issues with the new government
Start: 10/06/2015 09:30
End: 10/06/2015 15:25
Timezone: Europe/London
Start: 10/06/2015 09:30
End: 10/06/2015 15:25
Timezone: Europe/London
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Unions must be able to fight for workers – even if it means breaking bad laws
3 March 2015
By Len McCluskey
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IMF says unions are key to tackling inequality: Are you listening Osborne?
18 March 2015
By Sabina Dewan and Gregory Randolph
As George Osborne delivers his last budget under this Coalition Government, we wonder if he has paid any attention to a recent report published by…Read more…
Corporate Homicide Bill
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David Whyte
6 March 2015
By Professor Steve Tombs, Open University and Professor David Whyte, Liverpool University
Steve Tombs and David Whyte analyse Richard Baker MSP’s new draft…Read more…
Troika attacks bargaining systems across Europe
5 March 2015
By Thorsten Schulten, collective bargaining expert at the Institute of Economic and Social Research (WSI).
Real pay and collective bargaining coverage are falling dramatically and…Read more…
The Gagging Act: What can be done?
3 March 2015
By Keith Ewing, President, Institute of Employment Rights
Many readers will recall the great controversy that was provoked by the clumsily entitled Transparency of Lobbying, Non-Party…Read more…
The right to strike re-affirmed at ILO
25 February 2015
According to a press release from ITUC today (25 February 2015), a breakthrough has been made at the International Labour Organisation(ILO) following two years during which…Read more…
Extending Rights for Workers
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16 February 2015
By Andrew James, Solicitor
Much has been reported in recent months about the inequity of zero hours contracts (ZHCs). ZHCs are quite rightly seen as a form of…Read more…
What kind of laws do we want? A report of an IER Conference
13 February 2015
By Roger Jeary, IER Blogger
The Institute’s conference on 11th February saw a fine array of trade union and political leaders alongside legal experts and academics debate the…Read more…
Unfair Dismissal Social Media Reputational Damage
2 February 2015
Paul Scholey, Morrish Solicitors
Following his presentations on Social Media and Employment Rights at IER events in Liverpool and London last year, Paul Scholey, Head of Employment…Read more…
Economics: history tells us austerity doesn’t work
28 January 2015
By Sue Konzelmann and Frank Wilkinson.
Osborne argues that the economy is on the road to recovery. Cameron claims that the government is well on the way to reducing the national…Read more…
Tory plans to restrict the right to strike have been widely condemned
22 January 2015
By Professor Keith Ewing and John Hendy QC
Plans to place restrict the extreme restrictions on the right to strike are not consistent with international legal standards, write Keith…Read more…
Article 14: Prohibition of discriminaiton
17 January 2015
By Aileen McColgan, Matrix Chambers and King’s College London
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