30 April 2015 A workplace rep has won his Employment Tribunal case for unfair…
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New Manifesto Calls For Penalising Blacklisting Bosses
01 July 2016 BOSSES who blacklist workers should face “criminal penalties,” according to a Manifesto for Labour Law unveiled by the Institute of Employment Rights….
Health and Safety Update 2016: London
02 November 2016 By Andrew Moretta, World of Work PhD student, The University of Liverpool Andrew Moretta, a delegate at the Institute of Employment Rights’ Health and Safety Update 2016…
UN Special Rapporteur calls for increased trade union rights in the UK
27 June 2013 Trade union rights in the UK must be strengthened, the United Nations’ Special Rapporteur on the rights to freedom or peaceful assembly and of association Maina Kiai…
In the news this week…
14 June 2013 A weekly roundup of news affecting employment law and illuminating the need for…
Lee’s story: “We were called to a meeting and told that if we didn’t pipe down, they didn’t know what would “happen to us”!”
Lee Fowler, an electrician who was blacklisted from the construction industry for 26 years after he spoke out about unsafe working conditions, spoke to the IER about his experiences….
United Nations criticises UK’s “undue constraints” on trade union rights
01 February 2013 United Nations’ Special Rapporteur on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association Mr Maina Kiai has criticised the UK’s lack of trade union…
State spied on, blacklisted and smeared trade unionists, records reveal
24 July 2018 Newly released records have revealed that the Thatcher and Wilson governments spied on trade unionists, according to the…
Blacklisting event: The secret war between big business and trade union activists
IER contributes to report recommending further protection for whistleblowers
…whistleblowing charity, has released its Whistleblowing Commission Report, recommending a new Code of Practice on whistleblowing arrangements in the workplace and the prohibition of unjust acts such as blacklisting whistleblowers….
Human Rights: possibilities and problems for labour law, London
The Institute welcomed delegates to hear from legal and academic experts on the impact replacing the Human Rights Act with a British Bill of…
Human Rights at Work: possibilities and problems for Labour Law
Wednesday 1 July 2015 A one-day conference GMB, 22 Stephenson Way, Euston, London The Institute of Employment Rights in association with Morrish Solicitors LLP Write up: 1 July 2015 By…




