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20 September 2016 All 1,250 frontline firefighters in Greater Manchester have been given their notice in an attempt to force them to accept a new contract.

20 September 2016 A new survey by the British Chambers of Commerce (BCC) shows 89% of business people will not take on more apprentices following the introduction of funding reforms that the government says will lead to the creation of more apprenticeships.

20 September 2016 By the International Centre for Trade Union Rights The International Centre for Trade Union Rights (ICTUR) has reviewed the Institute of Employment Rights' Manifesto for Labour Law in its journal.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.