Migrant Labour
Labour Migration and Employment Rights
Labour Migration and Employment Rights
Labour Migration and Employment Rights edited by Bernard Ryan
Migrant workers often enter the UK in the hope of finding a better life – the truth is often far from that. Migrant workers are denied social benefits and are offered very little protection in terms of employment rights while the destitution faced by unemployed migrants makes them more vulnerable to unscrupulous employers.
Project on Labour Migration and Workers' Rights
Project description
This project examined public policy concerning labour migration from an employment rights perspective. the aim was to develop policy recommendations which recognise the legitimacy of labour migration. In addition it developed proposals to secure the effective application of labour rights and standards in a context of labour migration.
Migrant Workers: TUC Fringe 2005
Bernard Ryan
The meeting was chaired by IER Director Carolyn Jones and the authors spoke to their specific chapters. The Editor of the book, Bernard Ryan from the University of Kent, introduced the publication and spoke on legal migration: the right to work in Britain. Three further speakers spoke on their chapters in the book:
Migrant Workers Conference
When is a worker not a worker? When caught in the migrant trap!
At a conference in June 2005 organised by the Institute of Employment Rights, a very informed audience debated recommendations put forward by the Institute on issues surrounding labour migration and employment rights.
The consultative conference was the culmination of six months' work by an Institute Working Group involving academics, lawyers, trade unionists and NGOs. The final step for the project was the launch of a book at a TUC fringe meeting in Brighton on Wednesday 14th September 2005.
