Author: IER
Pay growth hits record low
18 July 2014
More evidence released that the so called economic recovery is not reaching most working people, as rising employment fails to enhance wages.
Migrants’ Advisory Committee draws on Institute of Employment Rights’ proposals
18 July 2014
The Migrant Advisory Committee (MAC) has released an extensive report drawing on proposals made in Labour Migration in Hard Times: Reforming Labour Market Regulation – an Institute of Employment Rights publication. The MAC supports the need for stronger labour regulations to protect vulnerable migrant workers, and confirms the need for greater resources and funding to ensure labour law is complied with.
Threshold Policy to be included in Tory Manifesto
17 July 2014
On the back of last Thursday’s strike action, the Tories continue attack on trade union rights
Gains for Collective Bargaining in Welsh Agriculture Industry
17 July 2014
The UK Supreme Court has ruled that the Welsh National Assembly’s bill to protect low paid agricultural workers by setting up an Agricultural Wages Board (AWB) for Wales is lawful.
The right to strike threatened….again!
2 May 2014
As workers celebrated May Day on the streets of London, led by a huge contingency of RMT members paying tribute to their outstanding leader Bob Crow, Boris Johnson revealed that a future Tory government would introduce further restrictions on trade unions “on day one” of taking power.
Zero Hours Contracts
2 May 2014
It’s official. The number of workers trapped on zero hour contracts is growing.
RMT v United Kingdom: Sympathy Strikes and the European Court of Human Rights
24 April 2014
In RMT v United Kingdom the European Court of Human Rights held that the ban on secondary action in the United Kingdom was a justified interference with the right to freedom of association in Article 11 of the ECHR.
Does the judgment in RMT v UK 'represents nothing short of an appeasement by the ECtHR of the UK government’s threats to withdraw from European Convention and its repeated attacks on the ECtHR'?
Here the lawyers in the case, John Hendy, QC and Michael Ford QC, provide a summary of the main findings.
EDM calls for changes to TUPE Regulations to be annulled
14 March 2014
On 1st march 2014 Ed Miliband tabled an EDM calling for the recent changes to the TUPE Regulations to be annulled.
ACAS early conciliation
14 March 2014
The ACAS early conciliation service will launch on 6 April 2014. Under the scheme, employment tribunal claimants will be required to first notify details of their claim to ACAS, who will then attempt to conciliate a settlement without litigation. Notification to ACAS will be through completion of a form – which, according to recent speakers at IER conferences, is not as easy as it sounds - or by telephone.
Zero hour contracts – the power factor!
14 March 2014
On 10th March the Guardian ran a story exposing the huge rise in zero hour contracts. According to the lastest official statistics from the Office for National Statistics, nearly 583,000 employees – more than double the government's estimate – were forced to sign up to the exploitative conditions last year.
Government to consult Parental Leave Regulations draft
14 March 2014
The government has decided to consult the draft, Shared Parental Leave Regulations. This draft will allow parents to share the leave after the birth of a baby in whichever proportions they see fit.
Blacklist the blacklisters!
The Scottish affairs committee has said that any construction firms that blacklist or have not made appropriate amends for past blacklisting should be denied public contracts.
