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15 September 2016 Oxfam has called on the government to protect workers' rights in order to reduce "shocking" inequality in the UK.

15 September 2016 President of the Institute of Employment Rights Professor Keith Ewing has warned that the UK is not adequately assessing whether it adheres to the International Labor Organisation's (ILO) four core principles – freedom of association, no discrimination, no child labour, and no forced labour – and that the situation can only get worse with free trade deals made after the UK leaves the EU.

13 September 2016 At a TUC Congress fringe event held by the Institute of Employment Rights (IER) on Sunday, two leading members of Jeremy Corbyn's team reiterated their support for the Manifesto for Labour Law – 25 policy proposals for reshaping workers' rights under the next Labour government.

13 September 2016 By Trade Union Futures It must have seemed a lonely furrow at times. For years now, the Institute of Employment Rights has been the go-to source of expertise and thought on workers rights for the left in the trade union movement. But successive New Labour governments showed themselves to be profoundly uninterested in tackling the iniquities of Britain’s labour market, preferring to wish them away with utopian fantasies about the knowledge economy. The Coalition and its Tory successor of course have launched a further frontal attack on the few rights and protections left to organised labour. But such has been the electrifying power of the left revival around Jeremy Corbyn that suddenly, the issue of workers rights is back on the agenda. Even Corbyn’s ‘moderate’ opponent Owen Smith declares himself in favour of collective bargaining now and suddenly the IER finds itself in possession of the appropriate ideas for the moment.

09 September 2016 The number of workers saying they are on a zero-hours contract for their main job has risen by over 20% in the last year.

07 September 2016 General Secretary of the National Union for Journalists (NUJ) Michelle Stanistreet has welcomed new policy proposals from the Institute of Employment Rights (IER).

07 September 2016 The University and College Union has welcomed 25 new policy proposals for the next Labour government that shift the focus of labour law to give workers a stronger voice.

06 September 2016 Executive pay rose again last year, despite growing anger among shareholders, a new analysis has revealed.

06 September 2016 New data has revealed that average wage growth in the UK has been next to nothing since September 2008, when the global financial crisis hit.

06 September 2016 Around one in eight workers are forced to stop working before state retirement age, with the lowest paid suffering the most.

Why not come to our fringe meeting at this years TUC? The fringe theme will be around our Manifesto for Labour Law. It will be held at 7pm on Sunday 11th September in the Regency room of the Old Ship hotel.

05 September 2016 The government has announced the appointment of Susan Johnson, former Chief Executive of Northern Business Forum, to a seat on the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) reserved for workers’ representatives. She was also previously a Director of Greggs.